Scientists are one step closer to pinpointing fragments of Leonardo da Vinci’s elusive DNA. A team of researchers from the ...

According to a new (but as-of-yet not peer-reviewed) study published in the preprint database bioRxiv, scientists began their ...

Researchers report having collected DNA they believe to belong to the legendary artist Leonardo da Vinci, offering new ...

Scientists pulled DNA from Leonardo da Vinci's possible Holy Child sketch in 2026, offering clues to his genius and new ways ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Foundation has advocated preservation of animals’ DNA as a long-term scientific strategy to help regenerate species ...

Nucleosomes are barriers to RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) transcribing along gene bodies in eukaryotes. We found that a fragile “tailless nucleosome” could be generated to resolve the Pol II pausing ...

The moa were a group of giant flightless birds that lived in New Zealand. They disappeared from Earth about 600 years ago, ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

India's first gene-edited sheep recently turned a year old and researchers who developed it say it's doing well. Born on 16 December last year in Indian-administered Kashmir, the sheep has been named ...

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