Scientists at the University of Vienna, Austria, have screened great ape specimens obtained from natural history museums to identify DNA viruses. This groundbreaking study provides unique insights ...

The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life ...

Diagnostic tests for infectious diseases often involve identifying “alien” life – in the form of viral DNA – within a patient. Detecting life on Mars may also rely on DNA detection strategies but, ...

個人の特定が可能なヒトの遺伝物質が、環境DNA（eDNA）の採取に際して意図せず収集される場合があることを示唆する論文が、Nature Ecology & Evolutionに掲載される。今回の知見は、eDNAの収集を巡って起き得る倫理上およびプライバシー上の懸念を提起する。

Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones and are not like big animals that leave clear signs in the geological record, which thankful palaeontologists can study many millions of years ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

Our bodies are made of cells. Each cell is a soup of smaller components, all working together to execute the body’s various functions. Perhaps the most well-known of these components are proteins — ...