New DNA evidence reveals that the cats of ancient China were not what they seemed.

Microbes are everywhere. They live in our bodies, in soil, in the oceans, and even in the air we breathe. These microscopic ...

The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...

Gene-edited goldenberries clear USDA review, moving closer to farms. Compact plants solve farming challenges for this ...

Geneticists reveal that the Bo people of Yunnan are direct descendants of those who practiced burial in hanging coffins.

Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and ...

The project provides a baseline for tracking microbial-population shifts with land-use changes and global warming.

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting across its vast grasslands. They lived in a world without settlements, ...

The genetically engineered food is also protein packed and sustainable, say scientists. Chinese researchers used gene-editing ...

The research used large datasets of Duroc and Yorkshire pigs to show how relatedness distorts standard measures of so-called ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new suite of statistical methods that dramatically improves ...

Farmers plant or preserve riparian buffers for various reasons, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion, or maintaining hunting habitat. Now, a new study from the University of Illinois ...