Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...

DNA isn't just a long string of genetic code, but an intricate 3D structure folded inside each cell. That means the tools ...

Suddenly, he realized that they joined together to form the “rungs” of a long, twisted ladder, a shape better known nowadays ...

Sections of DNA once dismissed as dormant and useless could in fact be recruited to fight certain types of drug-resistant ...

Oxford and Cambridge researchers who produced the image map which uncovers the secrets of why humans get disease say it ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

King’s College London researchers discovered that parts of our DNA once thought to be “junk” can actually help destroy cancer ...

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

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