The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Scientists used decades old air filters to read DNA in dust, revealing a long decline in biodiversity across northern Sweden.

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One lab full of rats looks pretty much the same as another. But visiting a lab in Siberia, geneticist Alex Cagan can distinguish rats bred to be tame from those bred to be aggressive as soon as he ...

Colorado law enforcement officials are asking Cedar Rapids residents of Czech or Slovakian descent to submit DNA samples to ...

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One evening in November of 2002, Carol Batie was sitting on her living-room couch in Houston, flipping through channels on the television, when she happened to catch a teaser for an upcoming news ...

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