Police in Las Vegas say help from Calgary police has aided them in identifying a victim of an apparent homicide almost 50 ...

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

A new gene-editing technique enables the correction of multiple genetic mutations simultaneously, transforming the prospects ...

Explore CRISPR technology explained, gene editing science, DNA modification, and genetic engineering ethics—discover how ...

In his later years, Watson's reputation was tarnished by comments on genetics and race that led him to be ostracized by the ...

Google’s homepage on Thursday (November 13) greeted users with a vibrant tribute to one of science’s most celebrated ...

Deanna Smith first went missing in 1999; her body wasn’t found until 2003, but no one knew it was her until over 20 years ...

Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to ...

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