More ancient viruses lurk in our DNA than we thought
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
Think your DNA is all human? Think again. And a new discovery suggests it’s even less human than scientists previously thought. Nineteen new pieces of non-human DNA — left by viruses that first infected our ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago — have just been found, lurking between our own genes. And one stretch […]