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

Every human face is different, but scientists still know surprisingly little about how our DNA shapes these differences. To ...

New whole-genome sequencing data reveals how strongly DNA shapes everyday traits, closing the long-standing gap in ...

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

Dalton’s reaction to Rocco is the biggest clue yet that the truth could upend everything, and have nothing to do with cold ...

Researchers at the Kennedy Institute have provided the most comprehensive overview to date of how the distinctive segmented ...

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 ...

Hidden changes in our DNA could help explain why conditions affect people differently, and why treatments don't work the same for everyone.

Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug ...

Scientists discover a new species of spiny dragon millipede, Desmoxytes group, found exclusively in damp caves and with ...

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 ...