The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...

Scientists found that DNA’s phosphate groups can direct chemical reactions to make the correct mirror-image form of drug ...

Scientists are hopeful it will improve understanding of how genes work, what goes wrong in disease, and how to fix it.

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the ...

In his later years, Watson's reputation was tarnished by comments on genetics and race that led him to be ostracized by the ...

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and functions inside living ...

James D Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double-helix structure and Nobel laureate, has died at 97. His groundbreaking work ...

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is ...

Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated cardiomyopathy) and muscle weakness (muscular dystrophies). Many of these diseases ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, tiny loops called microcompartments remain (and even strengthen) while ...

Remembered for breakthrough with Francis Crick, Watson was later ostracised by the scientific establishment over comments on ...