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

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has been infecting humans for at least 2,500 years. Some people inherited the ...

Learn how ancient DNA from human remains revealed that syphilis circulated in the Americas thousands of years earlier than ...

A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.

Some DNA passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers has been found to be a crucial force in living to be 100 years old.

Researchers recovered ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia and reconstructed a genome related to Treponema pallidum. The lineage predates known syphilis strains by ~3,000 years, ...

New DNA Study Links Human's Low Pain Tolerance to Ancient Genetic Roots ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. When early modern humans encountered Neanderthals and Denisovans, these archaic humans contributed DNA to our genomes. But how many archaic human ...

When Matthias Meyer began studying the ancient DNA in the 400,000 year old fossils he found in the Sima de los Huesos, or Pit of Bones cave, deep beneath the Atapuerca mountains in Spain, he was ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...