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

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

Funding cuts, visa restrictions, and assaults on the scientific enterprise itself threaten to turn the next generation’s ...

The DNA inside of living organisms is packed with information, so much so that it's hard to search genetic databases, but ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations ...

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

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

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 ...

On November 13, 2025, Google users in India were greeted with a smart twist when Google’s iconic logo had transformed into a ...

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.

Adding this genetic information to the historical evidence—which indicates that Duke Béla was assassinated in November of ...

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