Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and from letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...

Scientists have successfully recovered what may be Leonardo da Vinci's DNA from a centuries-old red chalk drawing, marking a breakthrough that could unlock secrets about one of history's greatest ...

Analyses of mpox clades currently in circulation provide clues to how the virus managed to spread worldwide in 2022 — and how ...

DNA analysis of cultural artifacts shows diverse biological profiles, but contamination and mixed signals complicate historical lineage interpretation.

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be ...

Long before modern medicine named and cataloged human herpesviruses, at least one of them was already quietly embedding ...

A woman's body has been found to consist of varying proportions of male and female cells because of an extremely rare form of ...

Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and ...