Humans have been shaping life for thousands of years through farming, breeding, and selective cultivation. But with modern ...

Roughly one in every twelve letters of your genetic code comes from an ancient viral infection. These molecular hitchhikers have helped shape our species - and may still hold secrets about immunity, ...

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

When it comes to music & surfing, he may very well be America's foremost scholar. His book, The Ocean Will Have Us All: Surf ...

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 ...

Nobel laureate James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix, has died at 97. His 1953 breakthrough launched modern ...

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

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

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

An international team led by Monash University researchers has uncovered the genetic code governing the way genetic mutations affect mRNA and result in disease. This breakthrough, detailed in a new ...

Explore CRISPR technology explained, gene editing science, DNA modification, and genetic engineering ethics—discover how ...

Ekin Genç is DL News’ Editor-in-Chief. Opinions expressed are his own. The world was transfixed last week when thieves in construction vests at the Louvre managed to vanish with jewels worth more than ...