Over the past ten years or so, investigations of degraded or ‘ancient’ DNA have skyrocketed. By extracting DNA fragments from diverse sources —from human teeth and faeces to soil samples and ...

They discovered that each tissue has a unique pattern of rRNA modifications -- which they call an 'epitranscriptomic fingerprint'. "The fingerprint on a ribosome tells us where a cell comes from ...

Researchers have tested ancient DNA from corn found at archaeological sites in Arkansas, shedding new light on the dispersal of one of the world's most important food crops. Researchers have ...

Are DNA ancestry tests a reliable way to trace your ancestry? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Well, my Mum actually did our family tree, and she found a lot of our ...

The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD ... the DNA fragments by size using a technique called capillary gel electrophoresis. It is sensitive enough to both accurately and ...

It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Thanks to advances in DNA analysis, this was all that was required for scientists to be able to ...

Human genome sequencing methods. (NIH) These overlooked genes have been hiding away in regions of our DNA thought not to code for proteins. These regions were once dismissed as 'junk DNA' but it turns ...

The applications of DNA testing, or DNA fingerprinting within forensic science is often what most people think of when they hear the phrase. Popularized by television and cinema, using DNA to ...

The fear that a vaccine will somehow change your DNA is one we've seen aired regularly on social media. The BBC asked three independent scientists about this. They said that the coronavirus ...