Emerging findings suggest that viral DNA may play an important part in how embryos form, right after fertilization.

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Five years removed from the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists around the world are still studying its effects and, more importantly, ways those effects can be mitigated in the future.

Ancient viral DNA embedded in the human genome has been linked to the genetic risks of certain neurodegenerative diseases, according to groundbreaking research. Human endogenous retroviruses ...

A dairy worker in Nevada has reportedly been infected by the killer variant of H5N1 bird flu; analysis shows changes in new ...

Scientists have identified nanoparticles that latch onto and destroy virus membranes, opening new possibilities for antiviral ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Ritvik Gupta, a junior at Johnson High School, has been named a National STEM champion, one of only two students from Iowa to ...