Genetic engineers can design and assemble sophisticated gene circuits to program cells with new functions, but important signaling molecules can become diluted as these cells grow and divide, causing ...

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

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

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

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

A new study exploring the structure of a tardigrade’s DNA damage-supressor protein could unlock a pathway to new levels of ...

Mingyuan Zhu, Ph.D., Bo Zhou, Ph.D., and Roop Fatima Jaffri, Ph.D., have joined the Texas A&M Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among ...

Duke’s department of biology recently decided to press pause on one of its gateway courses, Biology 203, Molecular Biology, Genetics and Evolution, reportedly due to negative student feedback on the ...