Researchers have found a new way to reactivate fetal hemoglobin without the need for gene-editing therapy, according to a new study.

Over the past decades, a growing number of robotics teams have started developing modular robots inspired by the ancient ...

Scientists extracted 39,000-year-old RNA from a frozen woolly mammoth, revealing which genes were active when it died.

With “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb aims for the tricky “middle path”: a life vivid enough to ...

James Watson, who died last week at the age of 97, had several graceless moments in his life, including serious streaks of misogyny, racism and homophobia. And while these lamentable incidents ...

Sohini Ramachandran is a professor of biology, data science, and computer science at Brown University. C. Brandon Ogbunu is ...

Researchers behind the "Hitler's DNA" documentary say the Nazi dictator likely had Kallmann Syndrome, which can cause ...

Scientists have discovered strange microscopic structures in the blood of people with Long COVID—clusters of tiny microclots ...

James “Jim” D. Watson, who helped discover the structure of DNA at age 25 and went on to spend 21 years as a Harvard biology ...

Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's ...

Each human and Neanderthal genome contains around three billion DNA letters, which makes it extremely difficult to identify ...

Pictures of DNA often look very tidy—the strands of the double helix neatly wind around each other, making it seem like ...