How do you study an extinct virus? They don't leav...  ...fossils behind! But some of them have left their DNA in other living things, including humans. Over t...

From analysis of mitochondrial DNA extracted from a pinky finger bone, scientists ha...  ...the Altay mountains in Russia. The mitochondrial DNA shows that the person (they believe it was a chil...  ...he said. Researchers will try to extract nuclear DNA from the bone, which ca...

Poet Christian Bök plans to alter the DNA of a particular species of bacteria so that it re...  ...fter. He’s going to encode it directly into the DNA of the hardy bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans. If...  ...to make it even trickier. He wants to inject the DNA with a string o...

I can't get enough of the video series at Big Think featuring Dr. Spencer Wells and his Genographic Project.  Here's a guy who I'd pick to be my professor of anthropology, molecular science, ancient history, and other t...

Some animals eats algae and incorporates the algae...  ...rporated enough of the plant's genes into its own DNA to manufacture chlorophyll in its own body! The...

A team of scientists led by Keizo Tomonaga of Osak...  ...ng from 40 million years ago is embedded in human DNA . This infection, known as the bornavirus, might...  ...rred to as endogenization. This occurs when viral DNA integrates into a chromosome of reproductive cell...

Police found a leech at the scene of a robbery in...  ...non was arrested on an unrelated drug charge. The DNA from his blood matched the blood from the leech!...  ...drug offences late last year, and asked to give a DNA sample - which matched that from the crime scene....  ...rt, said Cannon's conviction valida...

On August 20, 1974, scientists at Cornell Universi...  ...em, our number system, basic chemistry, and human DNA . 1679 digits were used for the message on the...  ...of life, and incorporates an extra strand in the DNA double helix.  The size of the creature depicted...

Charles Darwin was a lifelong fan of flowers, but...  ...ier. Recently, however, scientists are turning to DNA analysis of contemporary plants to decode where t...

Image: DNA Art Forms Lauren Davis of io9 describes four c...  ...ortrait of you, right down to the profile of your DNA . Above is a portrait of a woman named Catherine...  ...ove is a portrait of a woman named Catherine from DNA Art Forms. It all started with a cheek swab:....