A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the ...

His collaboration with biophysicist Francis Crick on the molecular key to all living organisms would make him one of the most influential figures in modern science.

New research from the University of St Andrews, as part of a team led by the University of Bradford, has confirmed the ...

He chronicled the search for ‘the secret of life’ in his bestseller The Double Helix but damaged his career with his ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

The story of the discovery of the structure of the Double Helix is well-known, but have often erased Rosalind Franklin (Photo ...

Researchers identified a new, sticky form of mitochondrial DNA damage that builds up at dramatically higher levels than in ...

A 13-year study of DNA samples collected from the 4,000-year-old Shimao site, a complex of gigantic prehistoric ruins on the northern edges of the Loess Plateau in Shaanxi province, has unlocked clues ...

For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...

A genomic study, whose results are published in Nature, has begun to unravel the deep mysteries that for millennia have ...