Most of us wandered through high school biology class, mostly worried about passing the next exam or trying to avoid dissecting a frog. We stared at diagrams of squiggly lines and letters without ...

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

DNA from 2,000-year-old lentils reveals key genes for protecting crops from heat and the current global climate crisis.

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97.The ...