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 ...

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British historian Russell Edwards claims to have identified Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski using DNA evidence from a crime scene. Kosminski, a mentally ill Polish immigrant, allegedly committed ...

Over a century after he murdered and mutilated London women in 1888, the long-mythologized killer’s identity has allegedly been confirmed by DNA found on a shawl, historian Russell Edwards said.

New DNA evidence has revealed the identity of Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber, more than 130 years after the brutal murders that terrorized Victorian London. Historian and author ...

Nearly six years after DNA analysts claimed to identify the notorious London serial killer known as “Jack the Ripper,” a victim’s family is demanding a police investigation into the claims.

Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science & Technology, ...

Fig. 1: Photo of Remontnoye (3766-3637 calBCE), with a spiral temple ring. Credit: Natalia Shishlina (co-author of “The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights ...

R-loop, an RNA-DNA hybrid structure, arises as a transcriptional by-product and has been implicated in DNA damage and genomic instability when excessive R-loop is accumulated. Although previous study ...

Detection of mutations and damaged DNA bases is important for the early diagnosis of genetic disease. Here we describe an electrocatalytic method for the detection of single-base mismatches as ...

DNA polymerase plays a critical role in passing the genetic information of any living organism to its offspring. DNA polymerase from enterobacteria phage RB69 (RB69pol) has both polymerization and ...

Specifically, the detection of DNA sequence variations plays an important role in the diagnosis of genetic-related diseases and conditions, especially for early stage treatment and monitoring.