Sohini Ramachandran is a professor of biology, data science, and computer science at Brown University. C. Brandon Ogbunu is ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

Googles DNA Doodle explains the molecule of life Read ahead to know science surprising fun facts and memory hacks behind your ...

Genetic testing has had a shift in the past ten years, as it has left medical laboratories and entered living rooms.

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to ...

The gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing what’s possible for treating a wide range of diseases caused by ...

Genetics research and cognitive theory together are revealing autism’s biological depth and cognitive richness, shaping a ...

Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

Pictures of DNA often look very tidy—the strands of the double helix neatly wind around each other, making it seem like ...

Analysis of Adolf Hitler’s DNA reveals he may have had a rare genetic disorder that delays puberty, a new documentary says. Experts say that more details are needed.