But for years, they’ve tried—and failed—to do the same with jewelry, tools ... They spent years testing various methods to extract human DNA—left behind in skin cells or sweat—from ...

The tooth, worn as a necklace bead, probably absorbed DNA from ... led to the release of relatively large amounts of human DNA with no damage to the specimens. The team then tested the procedure ...

Maybe it was part of a bigger necklace that contained more of ... and place her on the human family tree. "The DNA that we recovered is closest to a population that was also present during ...

An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

DNA is well-known for its double helix shape. But the human genome also contains more than 50,000 unusual knot-like DNA structures called i-motifs, researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

Around 8 percent of human DNA is made up of genetic sequences acquired from ancient viruses. These sequences, known as human endogenous retroviruses (or Hervs), date back hundreds of thousands to ...