Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As part of the ...

New genetic research confirms what the oral traditions of the Picuris Pueblo people of New Mexico have long described — that ...

DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon a millennium ago is helping ...

The project also shows that mammoths in the Modern Late Pleistocene fell into three genetic groups, all of which shared a most recent common ancestor around 780,000 years ago. Notably, this loosely ...

A federally recognized Indigenous tribe in the U.S. for the first time has led research using DNA to show their ancestral ...

The Picuris Pueblo tribal nation initiated a genetic study that confirms their connection to Chaco Canyon -- a potential ...

Viruses are microscopic pathogens composed of genetic material housed within a protective protein shell. While they carry the ...

The Picuris Pueblo initiated the research to show their ties to Chaco Canyon, the center of an Ancestral Pueblo regional ...

After two years of discussions, the collaboration settled on a plan of research, and the ancient DNA specialists were given access to both ancient skeletons at Picuris Pueblo, as well as samples from ...