Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary ...

Unexpected slowdowns or spikes in this signal were often interpreted as knots in DNA. But now, a new study published Aug. 12 ...

The code we’re talking about—the human genome—stores most of its instructions in genetic “ dark matter,” the 98 percent of DNA that doesn’t make proteins.