Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...

When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way ...

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal ...

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

The study’s authors include scientists from Colorado State University, the CSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories and the ...

Prior to the 1970s, researchers widely believed cervical cancer was caused by the herpes simplex virus. That understanding ...

A virus that infects nearly all children early in life has, in rare cases, been present within human DNA for thousands of ...

Scientists found that the space station phages gradually accumulated specific mutations that boosted their infectivity, or ...

An international team of scientists has analyzed the ongoing colonization by two retroviruses of the germline of koalas and ...

Two renowned prehistoric individuals were likely infected with a human papillomavirus that has been linked to several cancers ...