Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has been infecting humans for at least 2,500 years. Some people inherited the ...

New DNA Study Links Human's Low Pain Tolerance to Ancient Genetic Roots ...

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 ...

According to research from a team at the University of Utah Health and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, ...

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

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

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

Do you really want to know what's in a hot dog? If the answer is no, you should stop reading now. Clear Food, a company that genetically tests food products, decided to investigate. It used genomic ...

Animals that hibernate are incredibly resilient. They can spend months without food or water, muscles refusing to atrophy, body temperature dropping to near freezing as their metabolism and brain ...