Scientists hunting for the DNA of famed Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci say they’ve made a ...

Learn about the Leonardo DNA Project and the diverse biological traces that survive on the surface of historical artifacts.

A centuries-old sketch may be holding more than artistic secrets—it might carry traces of Leonardo da Vinci himself. A team ...

Researchers caution evidence remains preliminary but say genetic analysis could reshape how artworks are authenticated - ...

Five centuries after Leonardo da Vinci died, scientists are probing a startling possibility: that microscopic traces of his ...

The unidentified man’s DNA profile was uploaded to the GEDmatch database, but all of his DNA matches there turned out to be ...

Now scientists from the field of so-called arteomics, or the study of biological traces on artworks and other cultural ...

The Human Genome Project changed everything. A map of the entire human sequence of DNA was the starting point for an enormous number of discoveries, from disease genes to how humans evolved. But DNA ...