By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

An international research team led by Freiburg biologists Dr. Wenjing Qi and Prof. Ralf Baumeister has discovered how the LINE1 retrotransposon ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide insights into how mobile elements in DNA hijack cellular functions – and how ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

Pepper the cat, whose owner works at the University of Florida, gathered a specimen containing a never-before-seen virus for ...

The University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Medicine said on Thursday that one of its 41 drugs under clinical trials for Hepatitis B may provide a cure ...

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

Around 5,000 years ago, humans discovered that they could domesticate animals. So, as it were, they adopted animals like cows ...

For the first time, researchers have confirmed the presence of Sindbis virus (SINV) in wild birds in Nigeria, raising ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...