But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...
Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...
Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...
Ancient DNA reveals that childhood viruses lived with humans for thousands of years, reshaping how we understand human and ...
DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.
Long before modern medicine named and cataloged human herpesviruses, at least one of them was already quietly embedding ...