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

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died ...

Starting Friday, the non-profit X Prize Foundation and private firm Knome are auctioning a whole genome sequence on eBay. The highest bidder will walk away with a full readout of ...

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop.

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

The scientist leaves behind a complicated legacy after making a slew of offensive remarks during the later part of his life.

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human genome—comprising about 17% of the genome. It is commonly called a "jumping gene" or ...

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

This allowed, for example, building human societies that can overcome unbelievable challenges like inventing spaceflight and AI. And when we look closely, the rules of AI mirror the computational ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, tiny loops called microcompartments remain (and even strengthen) while ...

Around 8 % of the human genome is made up of “ghost” viruses - ancient retroviruses that once infected our ancestors and now lie dormant in our DNA. Far from harmless, these viral remnants can ...