A new gene-editing technique enables the correction of multiple genetic mutations simultaneously, transforming the prospects ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

This monumental scientific achievement occurred within a context of intense international collaboration, rapid technical ...

James Dewey Watson, Nobel Prize winner and “semi-professional loose cannon” whose racist views made him a scientific pariah ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

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That discovery, made with co-researchers Francis Crick and Maurice H.F. Wilkins, led to a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick moved ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have created microscopic soft robots shaped like flowers that can change shape and behavior in response to their surroundings, just like living ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Gallatin family is one step closer to finding closure after their loved one disappeared 39 years ago, all thanks to the University of North Texas Center for Human ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have unveiled MetaGraph, a revolutionary new tool that's being called a 'Google for DNA'. This amazing innovation makes it super easy and fast to search through massive ...

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French emperor’s troops as they withdrew from Russia. By Gina Kolata Napoleon’s army ...

When Napoleon marched into Russia in 1812, he brought with him the largest army Europe had ever seen. When he limped back out, he’d met his match — not in muskets or cannon fire, but in microbes.