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

Human DNA was found on the paws of one of the lions that was killed after authorities searched for the animals involved in ...

Afterwards, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers and law enforcement killed two mountain lions. A necropsy found human DNA on ...

Learn how ancient DNA from human remains provided the first direct evidence that a common childhood virus has been part of ...

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

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

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and from letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...

Humans began sleeping as a way to partly help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells, scientists at Bar-Ilan University in Israel ...

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

The human immune system like fat and blood sugar levels may have been due to genetic mutations from Denisovans, our little known extinct human relatives ...

Nearly a year after leaving his position as longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Eric ...

Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...