The team ran polygenic risk scores, which are statistical predictions built from thousands of genetic markers, to estimate ...

In cancer care, every day that passes can cost a life. First Ascent Biomedical is racing against that clock. By testing a patient's live cancer cells outside the body, the company reveals how their ...

Research institutions around the world house valuable genetic information that could help unlock countless medical mysteries.

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply controversial figure to the end.

Researchers have discovered that the enzyme NUDT5 utilizes its structure to exercise metabolic control over a key pathway in ...

What’s the story behind DNA melting temperature analysis? UV-Visible absorption spectroscopy can be used to assess the characteristics of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a naturally occurring polymer ...

James “Jim” D. Watson, who helped discover the structure of DNA at age 25 and went on to spend 21 years as a Harvard biology ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

Forget invisible ink – in the future spies could be sending secret messages encoded directly into the DNA of living cells. Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) have demonstrated a ...

Sohini Ramachandran is a professor of biology, data science, and computer science at Brown University. C. Brandon Ogbunu is ...