Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations ...

James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should ...

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

Betrayal, ambition and the double helix: turning Rosalind Franklin’s story and the discovery of the structure of DNA into an ...

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

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

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day decided to put the two together. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

Those silver strands could be an outward sign of the body’s own intricate defences against cancer, a recent study in mice has ...

A photo collage of Carroll County Sheriff Daniel Klatt and the Othram website Credit: Matt Campbell A skull found last year might be one of the “several people” missing in the area, according to the ...

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

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 entire community?

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a wooly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...