For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, ...

The "Well-man" likely had blue eyes, blond or light-brown hair, and hailed from southern Norway.

Scientists have successfully extracted DNA from ancient cheese for the first time, a breakthrough that sheds light on how probiotic bacteria has evolved over thousands of years. Chinese researchers ...

An expert in ancient DNA (aDNA) at the University of Copenhagen, his day job involved studying the lives of prehistoric ...

New research traces the genetic underpinnings of the enzyme amylase, which helps humans digest starches and sugars ...

Scientists extract DNA from hair embedded in the Tsavo lions' jaws that reveals the species of prey they ate while they were ...

By isolating and sequencing DNA in compacted hairs collected from the teeth of two Tsavo lion museum specimens from the 1890s ...

So human history cannot be understood without ... skeletal material and performed a series of laboratory steps to extract DNA molecules and multiply them often enough so that they could be sequenced.

Forensic scientists use the unique nature of DNA to help catch criminals. They collect human cells left at a crime scene, perhaps from blood, saliva or hair. The forensic scientists then extract ...

Evolutionary molecular biologist Beth Shapiro on the hunt for ancient DNA and her groundbreaking de-extinction and ...

We have evaluated a well-characterised herbal extract for its ability to affect the mRNA expression profile of a human cancer cell line. We used the Affymetrix hu6800 set of DNA microarrays chip ...