He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply ...

RNA plays a vital role in how our genes are expressed and how diseases develop. Yet, because RNA molecules constantly change ...

Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment ...

Researchers have discovered that the enzyme NUDT5 utilizes its structure to exercise metabolic control over a key pathway in ...

James Watson’s work on the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA led to a revolution in biology and genetics ...

Researchers discovered that embryos must clear maternal mRNAs to develop properly. When cleanup fails, it causes aberrant ...

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

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

Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle, or stop producing essential molecules.