UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

An international research team has recovered ancient human mitochondrial and nuclear DNA directly from cave wall materials in Portugal and Spain, some of it embedded in a pigmented calcite crust on a ...

Throughout the caves of Europe, in flickering torchlight, ancient people painted the most extraordinary scenes of cave lions, mammoths, and bison. We might finally be able to know the artists. The ...

Call it the science of small, but a trio of University of Florida chemical engineers have developed a lab-on-a-chip process that could make a big difference for DNA research and, ultimately, patients.