What scientists once dismissed as junk DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new international ...

Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome in its entirety. That is, ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus ...

A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic "junk" ...

Scientists have decoded the Swiss genome of the 1918 flu virus from a century-old specimen, revealing early adaptations for ...

Hepatitis B virus, a killer of more than one million people each year, is a notoriously wily virus, often lingering and ...

Active viral genes in the human genome. Viruses insert their genomes into their hosts in the form of a provirus. There are around 30 different kinds of human endogenous retroviruses in people ...

Buried in our DNA lies ancient viral code once dismissed as junk, and now it might be pulling the genetic strings. McGill ...

Once dismissed as “junk,” pieces of ancient viral DNA in our genome are now known to help control which genes are turned on or off.

An team of scientists found a family of genome sequences known as “transposable elements.” They play a vital role in gene ...

Scientists have just unlocked a secret buried deep in your DNA — and it's changing everything we thought we knew about ...

Later work would show that the two viruses were closely related, with the smaller of them being a compact form lacking four regions of the viral genome. We'll focus on the larger one from here on.