Ancient local winegrape seeds from Shivta. A new study led by the paleogenomics laboratory of the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa analyzed DNA ...

Since the mid-1980s, variations on the DNA fingerprinting theme have left their marks on diverse fields. By comparing distinctive DNA sequences, aberrations, or numbers of repeats among individuals, ...

PARIS — Critics who praise the "complexity" of red Burgundy and Champagne are on target. A team of French and Italian researchers has mapped the genome of the pinot noir grape, used to make bubbly and ...

PARIS - A 600-year-old grape seed discovered in the toilets of a medieval French hospital is genetically identical to the grapes still being used to make pinot noir wine, scientists said recently. The ...