The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...

An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive ...

D espite being almost genetically identical to modern humans, Neanderthals had much chunkier faces, with big noses, ...

In his later years, Watson's reputation was tarnished by comments on genetics and race that led him to be ostracized by the ...

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the ...

An international team led by researchers from King's College London (KCL) has now found that stubbornly persistent blood cancers can 'wake up' TEs as part of the mechanisms that lead to cancer cells ...

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is ...

The whole genome sequencing (WGS) method to identify tumor cells in breast cancer patients provides insights for developing targeted therapies or guide patients to match clinical trials, significantly ...

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...