Researchers have revealed the truth about Pompeii’s history and societal structure thanks to ancient DNA analyses.

An international study has found assumptions on the sex and relationships of individuals found in the ruins of the ancient Roman city buried in a volcanic eruption were not based on scientific ...

Shocking DNA evidence finds that the identities of bodies at Pompeii are completely different than what scientists have ...

A paper on 14 victims from Pompeii describes how DNA analysis shows a different story behind the relationships of the ...

People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which neurons in the central nervous system that help ...

Researchers traced the genetic history of aurochs, revealing ancient migrations, distinct populations, and the impact of ...

Using sequencing techniques, researchers associated 51 mutations in mitochondrial DNA with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an incurable degenerative neurological disorder that leads to muscle ...

New research shows that European aurochs consisted of three distinct populations – Western European, Italian and Balkan.

In an echo of human prehistory, this replacement was not complete, with traces of earlier ancestry surviving in European aurochs ... Remarkably only a handful of maternal lineages (as seen via ...