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Leonardo da Vinci's DNA may be embedded in his art — and scientists think they've managed to extract some

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

Researchers from the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project are working with a sketch that might have been drawn by the master.

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According to a new (but as-of-yet not peer-reviewed) study published in the preprint database bioRxiv, scientists began their ...

Did This Drawing Preserve Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA?

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

Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA potentially found in his sketch and scientists have extracted it

Scientists may have extracted Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA from a Renaissance sketch, sparking debates over authorship, while ...
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Possible DNA of Leonardo da Vinci extracted from some of his works of art

An international team of scientists has, for the first time, applied a minimally invasive genetic analysis technique to ...

Searching for and perhaps finding Leonardo da Vinci's DNA

Scientists have found male DNA on a drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. They are linking it to other documents.
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Scientists Recover Leonardo Da Vinci's DNA From 500-Year-Old Drawing

Scientists have successfully recovered what may be Leonardo da Vinci's DNA from a centuries-old red chalk drawing, marking a breakthrough that could unlock secrets about one of history's greatest ...

Scientists have reported the possible discovery of Da Vinci's DNA in the "Holy Child" drawing

Scientists have announced the possible discovery of Leonardo da Vinci's DNA in one of his drawings, which in the future may ...

Scientists may have extracted Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA from Renaissance artwork for first time

Some Y-chromosome DNA sequences from the “Holy Child” artwork and from a letter penned by one of Leonardo’s cousins appear to ...
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Scientists may have extracted DNA traces of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci's alleged DNA's Y chromosome shares common ancestry with the Y chromosome collected from the letter ...