A screen of human-infecting viruses identified extensive examples of viral proteins that resembled human sequences, which ...

The human genome sequence generated by the private genomics ... There are 100 trillion (100,000,000,000,000) cells in your body. There are three billion (3,000,000,000) base pairs in the DNA ...

Weill Cornell Medicine professor Dr. Christopher Mason and former astronaut Jose M. Hernandez shared their expectations for ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Each cell of the human body contains two meters of DNA. The whole secret lies in the intricate three-dimensional arrangement that allows DNA strands to be efficiently organized and compacted ...

When considering human settlements on the ... cause havoc with many processes in the body and increase the longer-term risk of cancer. Perhaps, using genome editing, we could insert genes into ...

Pandemics over the course of evolution have led to the integration of viruses into our genome. Westend61via Getty Images ...

A new study has been published in Nature Communications, presenting the first comprehensive atlas of allele-specific DNA ...

may have played a crucial role in human evolution," said Cousins. The study also found that genes inherited from the second population were often located away from regions of the genome linked to ...