USDA researchers pinpointed a key region in the watermelon genome linked to resistance against powdery mildew, a common ...

In May 2023, the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) released the first draft of the human pangenome reference ...

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

James D. Watson, who discovered the DNA double-helix structure and is regarded as a symbolic figure in 20th-century life ...

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

Watson’s 1953 discovery revealed the structure of DNA, the molecule that carries hereditary information, paving the way for genetic engineering, gene therapy and modern biotechnology ...

The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

Dr. Watson was one of three recipients of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for decoding the genetic blueprint for life.

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

Angelica Facoetti explains five facts accelerator physicists need to know about radiobiology to work at the cutting edge of ...

A team of scientists is employing a technique used to detect invasive species to search for troops lost at sea.