A virus that infects nearly all children early in life has, in rare cases, been present within human DNA for thousands of ...

Investigators used genetic genealogy to identify the 1966 Geneseo John Doe as 19-year-old Ronald Joe Cole, missing from ...

Changes in genes have been linked to the development of different diseases for a while. However, it's not exactly clear what ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

Archaeologists recovered the naturally mummified remains of more than 100 Indigenous Yakuts who were buried in Siberia ...

New study shows that in women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, their breast cells already carry a clear pattern of DNA “damage ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Frozen Siberian mummies reveal how Indigenous Yakuts preserved their genetics, traditions and shamanism for centuries, ...

A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions ...