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

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

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

Scientists have discovered male human DNA on a chalk drawing that may have been created by the famous artist and scientist.

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

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

It is one of the most tantalising – and entertaining – puzzles in art, stretching from the Louvre to the Loire via, well, Norfolk. And our critic thinks he has just worked it out ...

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

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

Scientists have recovered tiny DNA traces left on Renaissance artifacts, at least some of which they suspect belong to ...

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