Browsing: DNA

Changes in polar bear DNA that could help the animals adapt to warmer climates have been detected by researchers, in a study thought to be the…

A piece of stone age “gum” chewed by a teenage girl 10,500 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists in Estonia.The Institute of History and Archaeology…

If a TV programme sets about sequencing the genome of Adolf Hitler – the person in modern history who comes closest to a universally agreed-upon personification…

Watson shared in the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in elucidating the structure of DNA. Credit: APJames Dewey Watson – who…

Composer Peter Hugh White and librettist Clare Heath join host Rosie Millard in front of a London audience to explore why the story of chemist and…

Nature, Published online: 24 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03487-6Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably…

October 24, 20253 min readNapoleon’s Defeat in Russia Was Aided by Two Surprising Deadly DiseasesDisease-causing bacteria that have been recently discovered in the teeth of Napoleonic…

Four decades after prosecutors sent the wrong men to prison for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl from Long Island, New York, DNA obtained…

October 14, 20253 min readNew DNA Search Engine Brings Order to Biology’s Big DataMetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up…

DNA-synthesis firms routinely use -biosecurity-screening software to ensure that they don’t inadvertently create dangerous sequences. But a paper published in Science on 2 October describes a…