New England Biolabs (NEB®) announces the release of the Monarch Mag Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Extraction Kit, which enables consistent, scalable extraction of low-abundance, circulating cell-free DNA ...

John McDonagh (51) first launched an appeal in 2007 against his conviction for rape and murder of Siobhan Hynes (17) in 1998 ...

John McDonagh was 27 when he was convicted in 2001 by a Central Criminal Court jury of the rape and murder of Siobhan Hynes ...

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a ...

Companies can exacerbate biodiversity loss - or help to reverse it. The new IPBES report "Business & Biodiversity" shows ways to achieve this transformation. LIB projects show how scientifically sound ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

The Natural History Museum, London and Earlham Institute, Norwich today announce a joint venture spin-out company Agnos Biosciences™ (the first of its kind in the Museum’s history). The Agnos ...

In A Nutshell Johns Hopkins researchers developed a blood test that catches 81% of stage IA lung cancers (the earliest, most ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

A signal-processing–based framework converts DNA sequences into numerical signals to identify protein-coding regions. By integrating spectral ...

New tech lets scientists extract DNA from old grasshopper collections without damaging the specimens. This unlocks evolutionary data previously inaccessible due to DNA degradation.

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...