“Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid simile, Princeton geneticist Joshua Akey describes a process that, until ...

Leonard, Jennifer A., Shanks, O., Hofreiter, M., Kreuz, E., Hodges, L., Ream, W., Wayne, Robert K., and Fleischer, Robert C. 2006. "Animal DNA in PCR reagents plagues ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future? Eske Willerslev was on a tour of Montreal’s Redpath Museum, a Victorian-era ...

As next-generation sequencing (NGS) moves deeper into clinical research, population-scale programs, and AI-driven discovery, a new bottleneck has become impossible to ignore: sample prep. For Pranav ...