The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.
Formalin-fixed paraffin embedding (FFPE) is employed in hospitals around the world to preserve and store clinical samples. However, extracting and purifying DNA from FFPE samples presents challenges, ...
A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.
In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...