A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic "junk", may actually play powerful roles in regulating gene expression. Focusing ...

A genetic mystery has possibly been resolved by a team of international researchers. This mystery was connected to transposable elements (TEs) or "jumping genes," whose supposed capabilities have ...

Ever since they were first discovered and dubbed “junk,” there has been debate among biologists whether the long, non-coding regions of the genome are, in fact, useless. Many have proposed that these ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...