We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

Scientists have uncovered an extraordinary finding on Asteroid Bennu, a space rock that passes near Earth roughly every six ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

This study presents a valuable tool named TSvelo, a computational framework for RNA velocity inference that models transcriptional regulation and gene-specific splicing. The evidence supporting the ...

For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...

His discovery paved the way for breakthroughs in molecular biology NOBEL Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, has died aged 97. The renowned ...

His collaboration with biophysicist Francis Crick on the molecular key to all living organisms would make him one of the most influential figures in modern science.

James Dewey Watson, a molecular biologist whose work helped decode the structure of DNA, died on November 6, 2025, at a hospice in East Northport, N.Y. He was 97 years old. Watson was best known for ...

Chinese scientists have announced their findings on the secondary structure of chromatin, the pattern by which the human body is formed. Cheng Yingqi reports. On April 25, 1953, a seminal article was ...

Ansa Biotechnologies hauled in a total of $54.4 million in an oversubscribed series B round of financing that will be used to expand the company’s DNA synthesis production capacity in the U.S. The San ...

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in DNA's shape have an important influence on gene activity and energy production.