At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the new science writer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

A newly developed mouse model enables real-time visualization of RNA Polymerase II (RNAP2) during DNA transcription, as ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations ...

Sohini Ramachandran is a professor of biology, data science, and computer science at Brown University. C. Brandon Ogbunu is ...

Genetic testing has had a shift in the past ten years, as it has left medical laboratories and entered living rooms.

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

In this video I show you how to extract DNA! Then I eat it just to see what it tastes like! I take the DNA out of ...

James Watson, Nobel Prize-winning American biologist who helped discover DNA's double-helix structure, has died. Once ...

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