One stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

The research was not limited to uncovering the ancient history of Chichén Itzá. The study also compared the DNA from the ...

The genome of a man from a Tunisian site called Djebba held a major surprise: about 6% of his DNA could be traced back to European hunter-gatherers. The researchers estimate that his Maghrebi ...

The Monsanto Co., now a division of Pharmacia Corp., recently admitted that its Roundup Ready soybeans contain two extra bacterial DNA sequences derived from the original transformation event about 10 ...

Tragically, the virus claimed the lives of a number of researchers. Lynika Strozier, whose “hands of gold” could extract DNA from small amounts of starting material and who identified numerous new ...