Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

In the central Sahara, where sand now buries ancient lakes, scientists have pulled genetic material from 7,000-year-old mummified women and found DNA that does not match any living population. The ...

Stem-cell models provide evidence that viral DNA sequences that entered the human genome in the past were repurposed to aid early stages of embryonic development. Sherif Khodeer is in the Department ...