Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

But a novel technique is allowing us to peer back further than DNA's expiration date in Africa, to answer long-standing ...

Directed evolution is usually a laborious process that often takes weeks in which proteins rapidly evolve and develop ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Denisovan-derived DNA shaped Indigenous American ancestry, helping early peoples adapt to new environments, foods, and ...

Researchers have controlled the evolution of E. coli bacteria in the lab in order to dramatically increase the amount of plasmid DNA (pDNA) these modified bacteria produce. The advance is ...