What does it mean to discover genetic material from an iconic artists who’d been dead for years? In the recent book Wild ...

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da ...

What if a single Renaissance drawing could reveal not just who made it, but the biological traces of Leonardo da Vinci ...

Researchers working on the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project believe the Renaissance Man left his DNA on the chalk drawing titled ...

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

Scientists are one step closer to pinpointing fragments of Leonardo da Vinci’s elusive DNA. A team of researchers from the ...

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

Although the results aren't conclusive, the technique used to gather the DNA represents a significant milestone in the study ...

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and from letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...

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

Scientists with the ambitious Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project think they have potentially snagged a sample of DNA from the ...