Researchers have uncovered microbial evidence in the remains of Napoleon’s soldiers from the 1812 Russian retreat. Genetic ...

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

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

Owwww, howls your child while holding its ear and crying. Recent findings can lead to the development of a vaccine to protect against a very common type of ear infection.

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But ...

The federal government has been—and must remain—a critical partner in foundational technological innovation and research ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level.

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

Scientists used DNA testing on 1,200-year-old feces to detect E. coli, pinworms, and Giardia in ancient Mexico, and found ...

A label-free nanopore platform uses programmable DNA circuits to build versatile molecular logic gates, forming a universal basis for scalable DNA computing and advanced biosensing applications.