More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

To map the differences in virulence and disease-causing ability between the various subspecies of salmonella, for example, researchers need to sequence the DNA of the bacterial cells on the ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 20. Nature 414, 865–871 (2001) Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar Hattori, M. et al. The DNA sequence of human chromosome 21. ...

This article reviews the use of graphene nanodevices for DNA sequencing, highlighting the potential of approaches that involve DNA molecules passing through graphene nanopores, nanogaps, and ...

They then tried to find the DNA sequence of that particular fragment but found the development of DNA sequencing methods to be extremely difficult and laborious. They tried to copy the DNA fragment ...