Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

A good portion of human DNA is what scientists refer to as "junk" -- stuff left over from ancient viruses and such. But maybe ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

An international team of scientists a family genome sequences known as “transposable elements,” and found they play a vital role in gene expression.

Lund University scientists report that repetitive DNA once dismissed as “junk” plays an active role in human brain ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell ...

The human genome contains roughly 3 billion nucleotides and just under 20,000 protein-coding genes – an estimated 1% of the genome’s total length. The remaining 99% is non-coding DNA sequences ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

The non-coding genome, once dismissed as "junk DNA", is now recognized as a fundamental regulator of gene expression and a ...

The consortium now estimates that the human genome contains 19,969 protein-coding genes. With a complete genome finally assembled, the researchers could take a better look at the variation in DNA ...