Jul 8, 2013 by News Staff

Using DNA and RNA sequencing, an international team of researchers has revealed a surprising variety of life forms living in the subglacial Lake Vostok. Radar...

Jun 27, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Genetic scientists have sequenced and analyzed short pieces of DNA preserved in bones from an early Middle Pleistocene horse that had been kept frozen...

Jun 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Scientists led by Dr Thomas Gilbert from the University of Copenhagen have used DNA from a museum specimen collected in 1955 to study what may be a distinct...

May 16, 2013 by News Staff

A new study reported in the journal Nature Communications indicates that the Minoans, who 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization...

Apr 24, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has used ancient DNA recovered from human remains dating from up to 5,500 BC to reconstruct the first detailed genetic...

Jan 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists has sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA extracted from remains of a 40,000-year-old human found at the Tianyuan...

Dec 7, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A computational analysis of the genomes of the papaya, poplar, grape, and a small flowering plant called Arabidopsis thaliana, has identified hundreds...

Oct 25, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has sequenced mitochondrial genome of first New Zealand settlers, and revealed a surprising degree of genetic variation...