Globally, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is now the most common chronic liver disease, affecting up to one in three people in the general population, with an ...

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

Too often in old age, he made unjustified racial remarks in highly offensive ways with immense ‘titanic’ public consequences ...

James Dewey Watson, a molecular biologist whose work helped decode the structure of DNA, died on November 6, 2025, at a hospice in East Northport, N.Y. He was 97 years old. Watson was best known for ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic engineering, ...

He was only 37 when he made a discovery that challenged the existing tenets of biology and led to an understanding of retroviruses and viruses, including H.I.V. By Gina Kolata David Baltimore, a ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s helical structure. By Delthia Ricks Franklin W. Stahl, a molecular biologist ...

Understanding biological processes and the role of genes, allows us to decipher the functioning of complex systems and understand why we are different, why we age, what are the molecular bases of the ...

A team of researchers has made a discovery in fruit flies that could change the way we understand brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in humans. The scientists found that Eato -- a ...

Researchers have proposed that the ability to grow long scalp hair in humans originated from an ancient molecular program that was reactivated by evolutionary factors, such as walking upright.