In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

The closest thing marine taxonomists have to the Olympics is now underway in San Diego. But instead of racing for medals, leading scientists are spending two weeks working together to catalog the ...

Colossal Biosciences will sequence and cryopreserve genomes for all 2,300+ US endangered species in partnership with Fish and ...

Tapping into the power of collaboration, Johns Hopkins University and West Virginia University are launching a new partnership to bring together researchers from both institutions to address complex ...

A major new genetic study challenges long-standing ideas about Europe’s prehistoric populations, uncovering surprising interactions between ancient hunter-gatherers, farmers, and later Bronze Age ...

Contributed by Y. M. Dennis Lo, December 3, 2019 (sent for review September 4, 2019; reviewed by Erik A. Sistermans and Joris Vermeesch) We observed the presence of extrachromosomal circular DNA ...

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s DeepMind now claims to have found a revolutionary use case for AI: helping ...

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever. To understand what the ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the science writer at Cold Spring Harbor ...

US scientist James Watson, who co-discovered the double-helix shape of DNA, has died aged 97. The Chicago-born DNA pioneer was just 24 when he made the breakthrough discovery, which cemented his place ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97. The ...

Watson attended the University of Chicago at age 15, initially intending to become an ornithologist. After reading Erwin Schrödinger’s book of collected public lectures on the chemistry and physics of ...