DNA from 25,000-year-old tooth pendant reveals woman who wore it
3 May 2023
A new technique for extracting DNA from ancient artefacts without destroying them could give us unprecedented insights about the people who made or wore them
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A family tree of humanity released in 2022 shows how we're all related
14 December 2022
Researchers unveiled a picture of humanity’s genealogy based on 3601 modern genomes and eight ancient genomes going back 2 million years
DNA records reveal mass migration from Europe into Anglo-Saxon Britain
21 September 2022
In some parts of England in Anglo-Saxon times, more than three-quarters of the population's ancestry could be traced to recent migration from Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands
New test shows which bits of your DNA are from which biological parent
8 June 2022
A test uses epigenetic marks on your DNA to determine which parts of your genome came from each biological parent
DNA of Native American leader Sitting Bull matched to living relative
28 October 2021
Tatanka Iyotake, popularly known as Sitting Bull, is famed as a 19th century leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux people – and DNA strengthens the claim that he has living descendants
Most detailed human genome sequence yet reveals our hidden variation
26 July 2021
The first analyses of a new and more complete version of the human genome reveal enormous amounts of previously undetected variation that may underlie disease
Chris Mason interview: Let's tweak human DNA for life on other planets
14 July 2021
To become an interplanetary species, we may have to genetically engineer ourselves to be more resilient, says geneticist Chris Mason. He has a 500-year plan for life away from Earth
The human genome has finally been completely sequenced after 20 years
28 May 2021
Two decades after the first drafts of the human genome were published, new sequencing technologies mean it is finally complete – and could show us more than ever
People of European descent evolved resistance to TB over 10,000 years
4 March 2021
Analysis of ancient DNA shows that a genetic variant that increases susceptibility to tuberculosis has drastically decreased in Europe since the Bronze Age
Do telomere length tests really reveal your biological age?
17 February 2021
Curiosity about how well our bodies are ageing has fuelled an industry around telomere length tests, but the much touted “biological clock” in our DNA isn’t what we thought
