With the lightest touch, scientists search da Vinci's art for DNA

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da ...
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DNA Found on 500-year-old Renaissance Art Could Belong to Leonardo da Vinci

What if a single Renaissance drawing could reveal not just who made it, but the biological traces of Leonardo da Vinci ...
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Leonardo da Vinci was centuries early on wood preservation

Leonardo da Vinci suggested simple wood treatments that still influence durable and sustainable building today.

Leonardo Da Vinci's Art May Be Hiding a Secret: His Own DNA

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

Science sleuths think they found Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA

Scientists are one step closer to pinpointing fragments of Leonardo da Vinci’s elusive DNA. A team of researchers from the ...
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Scientists May Have Extracted Leonardo Da Vinci’s DNA From A Renaissance Sketch

According to a new (but as-of-yet not peer-reviewed) study published in the preprint database bioRxiv, scientists began their ...

Da Vinci's DNA Is Potentially in The Hands of Scientists

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

Scientists pulled DNA from Leonardo da Vinci's possible Holy Child sketch in 2026, offering clues to his genius and new ways ...
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Today-History-Jan08

Today in History for Jan. 8: In 1324, explorer Marco Polo died at age 70. In 1438, the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches met at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in an effort to form an alliance that ...