The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way DNA is extracted from ancient bones ...

A 5,700-year-old chewed birch pitch from Denmark has revealed an entire human genome, dental microbes, and traces of ancient ...

Biophysicists in Japan have found ways to make and manipulate capsule-like DNA structures that could be used in the development of artificial molecular systems. Such systems could function, for ...

“This small-scale study indicates that capsule packers deposit less DNA than capsule makers, who spend more time handling the drug casing, and those that make the capsules can leave enough DNA for a ...