Summer McKesson struggled to breathe for years. Doctors told her it was because her blood would not stop clotting – and they ...

The retreat from Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Grande Armée in 1812 was a cataclysmic event that marked the ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun, have developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for ...

Natural spiderwebs are good at capturing DNA from the environment, but artificial webs are cheap and provide better control – ...

The DNA test revealed that the bulk of my Irish roots trace back to Cork, Kerry, and Limerick. Interestingly, Dublin wasn't ...

Collaborating researchers have made a breakthrough discovery regarding the intricate defense systems of bacteriophages (phages)—viruses that can specifically target harmful bacteria without harming ...

Ancient DNA from Napoleon’s soldiers reveals enteric and relapsing fevers - not typhus - as key killers during the army’s ...