Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

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

Understanding human gene function in living organisms has long been hampered by fundamental differences between species.

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

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

For many people, discomfort during a medical injection or a long tattoo session feels especially intense. According to new ...

Researchers are now exploring how to best extract and use saliva-derived DNA for long-read sequencing applications. Download ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park, may have captured ancient DNA from the Italian High Renaissance ...

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