Early efforts focused on mitochondrial DNA, which is more abundant in cells, but researchers have now shown that even nuclear DNA can be recovered from sediments. One group described how nuclear DNA ...
The study of ancient DNA has revolutionised our understanding of human history, enabling scientists to decipher complex population dynamics over tens of thousands of years. By analysing genetic ...
A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...