The Wistar Institute, an international biomedical research leader in cancer, immunology and infectious disease, announces the ...

Indian American researcher to study how cells “silence” transposons, genetic elements that can disrupt the function of genes ...

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

It turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses that embedded themselves into our genetic ...