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

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

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — James D. Watson, the pioneering molecular biologist whose 1953 co‑discovery of the DNA ...

In February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an ...

Angelica Facoetti explains five facts accelerator physicists need to know about radiobiology to work at the cutting edge of ...

James Watson, who has died aged 97, was the 25-year-old American biologist who in 1953, with Francis Crick, revealed the double helix structure of DNA, the chemical from which genes are made. For this ...

A new study from the University of Tokyo suggests gray hair might be a natural defense against skin cancer. Researchers found that when pigment stem c ...

The same cellular renewal that keeps our bodies healthy might also fuel the growth of cancer. A UC Merced biologist has found that the brain could hold the key to stopping it.

What if the brain's response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes ...

Learn more about bowhead whales and how they routinely see out their 200th birthday — and this DNA-repair protein might just ...