What scientists once dismissed as junk DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new international study reveals that ancient viral DNA buried in our genes plays an ...

“Our genome was sequenced long ago, but the function of many of its parts remain unknown,” Fumitaka Inoue, a co-author of the study from Kyoto University, said in a press statement.

At MIT, one genome researcher is testing a different approach. Bin Zhang, associate professor of chemistry and the leader of MIT's Zhang Lab, is using artificial intelligence to "unfold" complex ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus ...

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The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...

For the first time, the complete genome of a person from ancient Egypt has been sequenced. The DNA was collected from the remains of an older man, possibly a potter, who lived over 4500 years ago.