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 ...

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

Each cell in our bodies carries about two meters of DNA in its nucleus, packed into a tiny volume of just a few hundred cubic micrometers-about a millionth of a milliliter. The cell manages this by ...

The pan-genome consists of the genomes of 26 modern cultivars and landraces as well as seven wild oat lines.• The team also built a ...

James Dewey Watson, the famed scientific mind who co-discovered the structure of DNA alongside Francis H.C. Crick, winning ...

What Complete Genomics brings to the joint venture is the chemistry for probing DNA. "If we lay this DNA out, and use the Complete Genomics chemistry, we can see in living color the order of all those ...

NEW YORK - Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor. The African ...

James D. Watson who helped identify the double-helix structure of the DNA molecule, died on Thursday at the age of 97.