{
  "id": 16210636,
  "title": "An ancient virus in chimpanzee DNA switches off a gene that is active in humans",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/an-ancient-virus-in-chimpanzee-dna-switches-off-a-gene-that-is-active",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-23T18:00:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-ancient-virus-chimpanzee-dna-gene.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Humans and chimpanzees share almost all their genes. Despite this, our brains have developed in different ways. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now shown that a viral pandemic dating back several million years is likely to be part of the explanation.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}