50,000-year-old DNA from South African antelope rewrites limits of ancient DNA preservation
On Jul. 15, 2026, scientists announced recovering ancient DNA from a 50,000-year-old antelope tooth found in South Africa,…
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Ancient DNA found on cave walls In Portugal and Spain
On Jun. 24, 2026, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology report that ancient human DNA…
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Ancient teeth from Siberia rewrite the plague’s timeline, dating back to over 5,500 years ago
On Jun. 17, 2026, scientists announced they have have found the oldest known evidence of the plague, which…
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Genomes from Oceania offer new clues to human evolution
On Jun. 11, 2026, a new Yale University-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses…
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Scientists Map Proteins From Billion-Year-Old Organism and Discover New Links to Rare Diseases
On May 27, 2026, a University of Texas at Austin-led team has identified genes by comparing groups of…
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Central-Eastern Europe’s oldest Neanderthal group identified by DNA taken from teeth
On May 13, 2026, DNA recovered from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave in southern Poland shows the…
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Bridging the gap from chemistry to life: discovery of a tiny RNA that can copy itself
On Feb. 13, 2026, researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology announced a newly discovered small catalytic…
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Building blocks of life discovered in Bennu asteroid rewrite origin story
On Feb. 9, 2026, researchers at Penn State reported that amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life,…
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Life Found in a Place Scientists Though Impossible
On Nov. 9, 2025, scientists from the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen reported they had…
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Ancient DNA Database Faces Uncertain Future after Funding Expires
On Oct. 23, 2025, researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory announced they are uncertain how they will…
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China launches ambitious collaboration to map primate brains—including ours
On Sept. 20, 2025, scientists from around the world gathered at a conference in Shanghai to launch the…
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Six ape genomes sequenced telomere-to-telomere
On Apr. 9, 2025, an international, multi-institutional team of researchers announced that comprehensive reference genomes have now been…
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Landmark Study Highlights Cloning as a Proven Conservation Tool for Species on the Brink
On April 2, 2025, Wildlife conservation nonprofit Revive & Restore published a landmark study in the peer-reviewed journal…
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Atlas of Brain’s Mitochondria Reveals High Cognition Areas Supplied with More Energy
On Mar. 26, 2025, researchers from Columbia University announced they have created MitoBrainMap, the first-ever atlas of the…
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Rice research team creates universal RNA barcoding system for tracking gene transfer in bacteria
On Mar. 18, 2025, an interdisciplinary group of researchers from Rice University announced they have created a new…
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Neanderthal Genes linked to lactase persistence in East Asian populations
On Mar. 10, 2025, new research shows positive selection at the 2q21.3 locus in Europeans and Africans has…
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New methods reveal cancer mechanism in ancient genes
On Mar. 3, 2025, researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center announced they have discovered an overlooked mechanism driving…
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Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD
On Jan. 1, 2025, a study led by the Francis Crick Institute showed that waves of human migration…
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Oldest human DNA revealed family network that spanned Europe
On Dec. 12, 2024, a study led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in…
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Ancient DNA data hold insights into past organisms and ecosystems — handle them with more care
On Dec. 10, 2024, researchers reported that DNA recovered from ancient remains is transforming our understanding of organisms…
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Scientists recreated mouse from gene older than animal life
On Nov. 15, 2024, researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the the University of Hong Kong…
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Proteins that regulate animal stem cells are much older than animals themselves
On Nov. 15, 2024, an international research team including scientists from the Max Planck Institute reported that critical…
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Turtle genome provided new clues on the evolution of vertebrates
On Oct. 21, 2024, scientists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Iowa State University (ISU)…
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Why do we love carbs? The origins predate agriculture and maybe our split from Neanderthals
On Oct. 17, 2024, a study led by the University at Buffalo and the Jackson Laboratory (JAX) revealed…
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CSIRO scientists Sequenced first full genome of critically endangered ‘Walking’ Australian Spotted handfish
On Oct. 8, 2024, scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency,…
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Human genome stored on ‘everlasting’ memory crystal
On Sept. 19, 2024, scientists from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre announced they had stored the…
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Human Defenses Against Viruses First Evolved Billions of Years Ago, Study Suggests
On Aug. 21, 2024, a research team at the University of Texas at Austin reported that the first…
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lungfish has 30 times as much DNA as humans—a new record for animals
On Aug. 14, 2024, scientists from Uruguay University announced that a species of lungfish found in South America…
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most ancient human genome discovered has been sequenced, a Denisovan
On Jul. 11, 2024, Stéphane Peyrégne from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology unveiled a genetic sequence…
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NIH researchers discovered a new face-detecting brain circuit
On Jul. 2, 2024, scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have uncovered a brain circuit in…
