Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA may be hiding in his artwork, researchers say

Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s elusive DNA.

Prehistoric wolf’s gut frozen in time reveals an ice age giant

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

Researchers expand human genome map to 2.37 million regulatory DNA elements

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...
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AI Can Now Predict What DNA “Programs” Will Do in Cells

Rice University researchers created CLASSIC, a platform that builds vast libraries of genetic circuits and links each full ...

DNA from ancient viral infections helps embryos develop, mouse study reveals

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...