Scientists are celebrating DNA Day, marking the completion of the human genome project in 2003. The project successfully ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical minefield, with fears of a generation of ‘designer babies’ with pick ‘n’ mix ...

Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can scientists ensure that human remains of irreplaceable significance are ...

When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev was a nobody. At least, that’s how it seemed to the budding evolutionary geneticist, who was unable to lay his hands on ...