A two million-year-old DNA sample could provide a “game-changing” understanding of the world’s ancient ecosystems and how the environment could change due to the climate crisis. The new sample, made ...

World's oldest DNA recently studied Todd Battis speaks with John Gosse, a professor of earth and environment sciences at Dalhousie University, about the world's oldest DNA.

Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had ...

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun, have developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for drug discovery, using mass spectrometry instead of DNA tags. "We wanted to ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crime-fighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97.

NEW YORK (AP) — The discovery of DNA’s double helix structure 70 years ago opened up a world of new science — and also sparked disputes over who contributed what and who deserves credit. As we ...

When Erika Lougheed bought herself an at-home DNA test for her birthday earlier this year, she was acting on a "gut feeling" she'd had her entire life. Lougheed, who lives in Corbeil and has lived in ...

The jury at the Robert Pickton murder trial will hear that a DNA profile of an unidentified man has been associated with the partial remains of two women discovered in a freezer on the Pickton farm, ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97. The ...

James Watson had a dream in which he was walking up a spiral staircase. He and Francis Crick had been working on the structure of DNA at the Cavendish Laboratories in England, but were stymied by the ...