Researchers in China claim to have found the remains of DNA in the fossil of a 125 million-year-old dinosaur, preserved in the cartilage of a turkey-sized reptile called Caudipteryx. Following up on the 2020 discovery of what might be preserved DNA in the skull of an infant Hypacrosaurus, the research team turnedread more
An international team of researchers has uncovered what appears to be fragments of 75 million-year-old DNA from a dinosaur hatchling, bringing the concept behind Jurassic Park one step closer to reality. Previously, it was broadly accepted that the maximum amount of time that DNA could survive in a fossil wasread more
All lifeforms across the entirety of the planet Earth have one thing in common, in that there is only one genetic code shared amongst all of the biological kingdoms, a singular chemical language handed down through the planet’s history, from the earliest single-celled creatures to the complex organisms thatread more
Nobel Laureate, author, researcher and experiencer Kary B. Mullis has died at the age of 74. Mullis revolutionized the field of DNA research—and indeed all disciplines that involve the use of our genetic code—with his invention of the biochemical process known as the polymerase chain reaction. Mullis is also anread more