The Piasts, Poland's first royal dynasty, are the subject of recent, ground-breaking DNA research that questions conventional wisdom. Genetic analyses show that the male lineage's Y-chromosome ...
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 ...
Infections particular to our genome may have helped drive human-specific traits — plus, using heat to power DNA computers.