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Chemistry World July 16, 2009 James Urquhart	New DNA technique sheds light on ancient populations A new sequencing technique that is cheaper and less wasteful has been used to decode and analyse the mitochondrial genomes of five Neanderthal individuals.
Wired July 2006 Annalee Newitz	Code of the Caveman A new DNA mapping technique may solve an ancient mystery: Do modern humans carry Neanderthal genes?
Smithsonian October 2006 Steve Olson	Neanderthal Man Svante Paabo has probed the DNA of Egyptian mummies and extinct animals. Now he hopes to learn more about what makes us tick by decoding the DNA of our evolutionary cousins.
IEEE Spectrum July 2010 Prachi Patel	Computing the Neanderthal Genome New software helped decode the DNA of our stone-age cousins
The Motley Fool November 17, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Neanderthal DNA Enlightens Investors Investors, the superb performance of 454's gene sequencing equipment on such a difficult and important project bodes well for its future prospects.
Geotimes March 2005 Laura Stafford	New Neanderthal Knowledge Recent studies are making links -- both genetic and morphologic -- between Neanderthals and modern people, thus helping to put together the pieces of the human evolution puzzle.
Wired April 2006 Steve Olson	Bringing Back the Brontosaurus Digging for fossils is for dinosaurs. Today's animal trackers are using genomics to reconstruct, and one day resurrect, the original hot-blooded beast.
Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Birds Evolve Small Genomes Pre-Flight The holes in fossil dinosaur bones are pointing out the holes in the theories of bird evolution.
Geotimes August 2007 Erin Wayman	DNA Holds Clues to Extinction A new DNA study is showing that mammoths were in decline before humans hunted them en masse.
Bio-IT World October 2005 Kevin Davies	Monkey Business The impact of the chimpanzee genome is not confined to science. It offers an urgent reminder of the endangered status of many primate species.
Science News April 24, 2004	DNA Day An ivitation to commemorating the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the description of DNA's structure as a double helix in 1953.
Chemistry World April 3, 2008 Lewis Brindley	DNA Read in a Trice The prospect of treatments that are tailored to fit an individual's genetic makeup is a step closer thanks to technology unveiled by US scientists.
Geotimes November 2007 Erin Wayman	Sudden Climate Change Not Neanderthals' Downfall New research suggests abrupt climate change is not to blame for the extinction of Neanderthals. Instead, competition from modern humans probably played a large role.
Geotimes November 2005 Megan Sever	Neanderthal Neighbors New research on Neanderthal and human artifacts excavated from a French cave is indicating that the two groups lived here in successive generations, supporting the idea that Neanderthals and humans coexisted
Bio-IT World January 21, 2005 Kevin Davies	Simulated Shades of Jurassic Park? Bioinformatics researchers have re-created part of the genome sequence of an ancestral mammal that lived 70 million to 80 million years ago.
Chemistry World April 10, 2008 Henry Nicholls	Water Retains DNA Memory of Hidden Species A team of scientists has demonstrated that DNA profiling could be a quick, effective and relatively cheap alternative to finding new species of animal life.
AskMen.com Ross Bonander	5 Things You Didn't Know: DNA With human cloning and other controversial bombshells waiting just around the corner, expect DNA to remain in the public eye for decades to come.
Chemistry World June 30, 2011 Laura Howes	Chemically evolved bacteria European scientists have created an Escherichia coli strain with a separate genome using chlorinated DNA.
Chemistry World December 23, 2015	Bones of contention Can protein in dinosaur bones survive for millions of years? Rachel Brazil explores the evidence.
Chemistry World June 26, 2008 Bea Perks	Liquid Crystals Stand up for DNA Detection Liquid crystals that realign in response to DNA can reveal subtle sequence alterations, even a single base mutation, report US scientists.
Salon.com January 3, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski	A mammoth undertaking Can genetic science bring extinct species back to life? And if it can, should we let it?
PC Magazine July 13, 2005 John R. Quain	DNA Printing Press A group of scientists believes it has an inexpensive nanoprinting technique that could lead to the mass production of DNA-based chips that could revolutionize disease detection.
Reactive Reports Apr/May 2005 David Bradley	At Last, the Structure of DNA Researchers have made a significant advance in our understanding of life's main molecule, using X-ray crystallography to determine the three-dimensional structures of nearly all the possible sequences of a macromolecule.
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Emily Waltz	Reading and Writing a Book With DNA Researchers are storing digital information in the form of DNA, but is it practical? Which will get us control of massively large data: electronic or molecular memory?
Wired August 2000 Jennifer Hillner	Area 22 The inside story of the first fully sequenced chromosome.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	Is It Time to Make Money Investing in Genetic Testing? Easier said than done.
Wired Lucas Graves	15th Anniversary: Scientists Chase the Miracle of Fake Life Biologist J. Craig Venter engineered a synthetic version of a real organism's entire genetic code. Here's how.
Chemistry World January 20, 2011 James Urquhart	SNPs on display DNA origami and atomic force microscopy have been combined to reliably detect and image single nucleotide polymorphisms, the most common form of genetic variation in the human genome.
Salon.com February 13, 2001 Arthur Allen	Size doesn't matter As scientists unveil the human genome findings, it turns out we have a lot fewer genes than we'd thought, and not many more than a fruit fly...
Chemistry World April 14, 2009 Hayley Birch	DNA electronics a step closer Japanese researchers have improved the electrical conductivity of DNA through simple chemical modifications.
Salon.com August 6, 2001 Andrew O'Hehir	"The Seven Daughters of Eve" by Bryan Sykes From Wales to the South Pacific, we're all descended from seven prehistoric women, according to revolutionary new genetic discoveries...
Scientific American June 2005 JR Minkel	RNA to the Rescue The spectacular discovery that a species of plant can summon up genes its parents have lost highlights biologists' increasing recognition of RNA as a more versatile and important molecule in its own right.
BusinessWeek August 12, 2010 Arielle Fridson	Innovator: George Church Synthetic biologist George Church says he can create living things faster than nature can, essentially speeding up evolution. And he says he can do it cheaply.
Chemistry World January 30, 2014 Anthony King	Unnatural DNA links click for faster synthesis Human cells can still read strands of DNA correctly if they are stitched together using linkers not found in nature, a new study shows.
Chemistry World July 13, 2011 Hayley Birch	Naked mole-rat genome holds clue to beating cancer The recently published draft sequence of the naked mole-rat genome promises to reveal the secrets of its long and remarkably cancer-free existence, potentially providing new targets for anti-cancer drugs.
BusinessWeek May 9, 2005 John Carey	Dr. Francis S. Collins: On The Trail Of Disease Genes Collins is leading the search for DNA variations that can result in illnesses.
Technology Research News May 21, 2003	DNA sensor changes color University of Rochester researchers have designed a simple, inexpensive sensor that can detect specific sequences of DNA on-the-fly.
Chemistry World November 16, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Gene-Reading Enzyme Catapulted by Scrunch Power Two teams of researchers have solved a conundrum that has baffled molecular biologists for 20 years -- how the enzyme responsible for `reading' genes can release itself from the portion of DNA to which it initially binds extremely tightly.
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Kevin Davies	With a Click of the Mouse What do Eminem and Mus musculus have in common? About 30,000 genes, for a start. The author mulls over the second mammalian genome.
Bio-IT World September 2005 Kevin Davies	Fantastic 454: DNA Sequencing Pyrotechnics In an exciting advance for DNA sequencing technology, a research team at 454 Life Sciences Corp. has essentially sequenced and assembled a bacterial genome sequence based on a mere 4-hour run on the company's proprietary instrument.
Salon.com May 1, 2000 Arthur Allen	Listening to DNA The genome project is getting the buzz. But the real breakthroughs may come from labs out of the limelight, like Gene Logic.
Bio-IT World June 2005 Kevin Davies	First Base: Genes, Geography, and History The National Genographic Project will collect blood samples from populations around the globe, then use genetic data to trace population origins and migration routes. Some groups are critical.
Technology Research News August 25, 2004	DNA Copier Uses Little Power Today's laboratory DNA detectors require a lot of energy. Researchers have devised a method that copies the way DNA is replicated biologically in order to avoid the energy-intensive heating and cooling process.
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Eliza Strickland	The Gene Machine and Me Ion Torrent's chip-based genome sequencer is cheap, fast, and poised to revolutionize medicine
Chemistry World August 9, 2012 Jon Cartwright	'Genetic code' guides nanoparticle growth Researchers in the US and China have demonstrated that DNA can also be used as a blueprint for the creation of non-biological structures. Their 'genetic code' could pave the way for tailored nanoparticles -- fit for use as catalysts, or in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
BusinessWeek October 23, 2008 John Carey	Reading the Entire Genetic Code Pioneers such as 23andMe and Navigenics use snips of genes to make medical predictions. Now new tools from more start-ups are on the horizon.
Geotimes September 2004 Megan Sever	A Mistaken Link in Human History Reevaluating old dates of sites is quite valuable and is an exciting trend in paleoanthropology right now.
Chemistry World April 14, 2011 Laura Howes	DNA origami yields tiny flask A US group of researchers has made a round bottomed flask from folded up DNA with an internal capacity of just 24000nm 3, which would be enough to hold 800,000 molecules of water.
Chemistry World February 11, 2014 Patrick Walter	Genome study to pursue Richard III's medical history In what will be the first study of its kind on a historical figure, scientists at the University of Leicester will lead efforts to sequence the genome of Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England.
Smithsonian February 2007 Eric Jaffe	Meditate on It Could ancient campfire rituals have separated us from Neanderthals?