A groundbreaking interdisciplinary study has unveiled the dramatic 2,000-year history of a population living at the southern edge of the ancient Andean farming frontier. By analyzing ancient DNA from ...

A new study reveals that farming in Argentina’s Uspallata Valley was adopted by local hunter-gatherers rather than introduced ...

Deep in Argentina's Andes, scientists have decoded over 2,000 years of human struggle from the bones of ancient farmers, ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By ...

With aging populations on the rise, the need for better tools to diagnose and monitor Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, has never been more urgent. This disease is ...

The startup is developing AI foundation models trained on DNA rather than text or code, applying deep learning techniques to ...

Discover how CRISPR genome editing is revolutionizing medicine. Learn the science of Cas9, current clinical trials, and the ...

The archaeological site of Ajvide in Sweden, dating back approximately 5,500 years, is renowned for its particularly ...

If NIH prioritizes human-based science in its ongoing overhaul of biosafety policies, the oversight system that has evolved for review of a wide-swath of biological research could atrophy and expose ...

For the first time ever, investigators have used tree DNA as evidence in court—to help convict a wood poacher.

A deep genetic mystery has baffled plant scientists for decades. Although leaves, stems, and flowers develop in strikingly similar ways across many ...

Goats tell us how human values changed through time by showing how and where we moved animals through trade or migration.