Cracking sleep's evolutionary code: Neuron protection traced back to jellyfish and sea anemones

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...
WESH

Ancient viral DNA may play a key role in early human development, new study suggests

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 ...
AOL

Existing models of genetic code evolution need revision, study finds

The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. Though it's a marvel of molecular precision, the path it took to evolve remains unclear. Fresh ...
Medical Xpress

James Watson helped crack DNA's code, sparking medical advances and ethical debates

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to ...