The 12,000-year-old skeleton of a teenage girl discovered in a cave in Mexico has confirmed a genetic link between earliest Americans and modern Native-Americans.
Around one million Britons are directly related to Vikings, with people from the north of Scotland most likely to have Viking DNA, according to a new study.
While the premise of the film – that dinosaur DNA could be extracted from the guts of a preserved mosquito that had recently dined on one – seems logical, the fragile nature of DNA and the huge expanse of time that has passed has led many experts to doubt those claims to have extracted DNA so old.
DNA has been called many things: the king of molecules, the blueprint of life, and less excitingly but perhaps more…
Biological systems have been using DNA as an information storage molecule for billions of years. Vast amounts of data can…