Scholars have debated precisely what kinds of diseases ravaged Napoleon’s troops. New DNA analysis of some soldiers’ remains ...

Through cutting-edge methods and advanced artificial intelligence analysis, UNC Charlotte researchers leading a ...

Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the trek of Neanderthals from Europe into Asia around the Middle and ...

Investigators using technology that lets them analyze DNA quickly without a lab have positively identified the remains of 14 ...

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month.

One hundred years after the heroic journey to Nome, scientists reveal how Balto's DNA explains his incredible endurance and ...

New genetic research is overturning decades of accepted beliefs about where Guam’s ancient CHamoru people came from, ...

Nicholas Hartman of Houston died in 1944 Allied invasion, but his remains could not be identified until this year. Advances ...

Genes linked to childhood intelligence also predict parents living longer. Study of 400,000 people reveals biology connecting ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia ...

In genealogy, research details are important. It turned out that John’s father, James, who was born in 1893 in the northeast corner of Scotland, was an illegitimate child of a domestic servant. John ...