What scientists once dismissed as junk DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new international study reveals that ancient viral DNA buried in our genes plays an active ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.

The study identifies an ancestral population in Central Siberia linked to the origin of Uralic languages. Warrior funeral with bone armor plates in the Kyordyughen site in Central Siberia, from about ...