While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the \"vampire squid from hell,\" revealing it bridges the evolutionary gap between ...

The Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom (2686–2125 B.C.) produced many lasting artefacts—but little DNA has survived. Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built ...

(CNN) — In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when ...

The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed ...

When it was first discovered, the coelacanth caused a lot of excitement. It was a living example of a group of fish that was thought to only exist as fossils. And not just any group of fish. With ...

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers this week introduced bills that would require U.S. firms to obtain a license before ...

DNA synthesis is going global. The biosecurity rules aren’t keeping up.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Rock-cut tombs housed the burial of an Egyptian man who lived during the Old Kingdom nearly 5,000 ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...