Scientists at the Leonardo DNA Project say they are getting closer to reconstructing the 500-year-old DNA of Leonardo da Vinci – the famous Italian polymath of the Renaissance. According to a recent ...

Scientists with the ambitious Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project think they have potentially snagged a sample of DNA from the famed artist/inventor himself. The findings are presented in a preprint, and ...

Five centuries after Leonardo da Vinci died, scientists are probing a startling possibility: that microscopic traces of his body still cling to the works he left behind. The idea that a drawing or ...

An open-source genetic information repository that has subsisted on crowdsourced contributions will shut down next month, partially to protect its user base from the threat of rising authoritarianism, ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper purports to have found ...