Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. Most of us wandered through high school biology class, mostly worried about passing the next exam or ...

On 25 April 1953, Watson and Crick published an article, in the acclaimed journal “Nature” titled “Molecular structure of nucleic acids: A structure for deoxyribonucleic acid”. The one-page article ...

Researchers at Tohoku University have discovered hidden genetic damage that has been overlooked for decades, which could lead ...

Working on human pus in a medieval castle, Miescher discovered a substance that would eventually unlock our understanding of ...

James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died. Watson was 97 years old and passed away after a brief illness. His groundbreaking ...

The discovery of the oldest ever dog DNA suggests they have been our best friends for nearly 16,000 years—5,000 years earlier ...

It's a major discovery of the 21st century: knowing the structure of DNA has revolutionized our knowledge of life, medicine and science as a whole. In this TED Talk, Nobel Laureate James Watson ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how our bodies sense and respond to stress. The findings of the UC ...

It did not take long after the discovery of X-rays in the 1890s for scientists to begin exploring the harmful effects of ...