A new study reveals how transposable elements (TEs) expanded gene regulation during brain evolution, shaping modern neural ...

Ancient viruses left a legacy in your DNA. And it turns out, that legacy may be helping shape who you are. A recent international study has shown that certain bits of ancient viral DNA, long dismissed ...

One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA that were written off as having no useful function are actually pretty important ...

A study conducted by researchers from Japan, China, Canada, and the U.S. found that DNA once considered "junk" makes up nearly half of the human genome. This "junk" DNA comes from transposable ...

For decades, most of our DNA was dismissed as useless 'junk,' but scientists are now uncovering its hidden treasures. From ...

Some millions of years ago, a far distant ancestor of all animals encountered a virus that inserted its own genetic material into the creature. Over the course of animal evolution, these bits of viral ...

Imagine the human genome as a string stretching out for the length of a football field, with all the genes that encode proteins clustered at the end near your feet. Take two big steps forward; all the ...

King’s College London researchers discovered that parts of our DNA once thought to be “junk” can actually help destroy cancer cells. In some blood cancers, damaged genes trigger chaos in these DNA ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we cover exciting new 'living robots' called xenobots — made from frog cells with the help of a supercomputer — and what they might be used for down the road.

You’re far from a perfect product. The code that makes us is at least 75 per cent rubbish, according to a study that suggests most of our DNA really is junk after all. After 20 years of biologists ...