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 ...

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

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Scientists have identified dozens of human proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on to replicate ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

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