All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

Ginkgo Bioworks continues to face a weak demand environment, which has contributed to a lack of growth in recent years. Learn ...

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

I’ve spent weeks following a team of scientists who are trying to answer a question that sounds almost like science fiction: ...

Google's tool for predicting how proteins “fold” turns 5 this year. How is it fitting into biological research—and where is ...

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

NIMS, in collaboration with Nagoya University, Gifu University, and the University of Adelaide, has developed a method for simultaneously imaging DNA and RNA inside cells using harmless infrared to ...

The Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Lab acquired a forensic tool used to test DNA from bones and teeth this summer.

James “Jim” D. Watson, who helped discover the structure of DNA at age 25 and went on to spend 21 years as a Harvard biology ...

Would you choose to have a part of your body live on after you died? How might your choice affect your relatives—or even your ...

The discovery of DNA was evidence of how deeply interconnected humans are, but the late scientist saw only difference.

Innovative Team Science programmes at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences will tackle big questions about ageing, sex differences and health. The transdisciplinary teams will take a 360 view of ...