Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

Learn about the Leonardo DNA Project and the diverse biological traces that survive on the surface of historical artifacts.

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

Ancient DNA reveals that childhood viruses lived with humans for thousands of years, reshaping how we understand human and ...