The intriguing findings bolster the theory that asteroids seeded the early Earth with life's chemical components - a process known as panspermia.

New 'cassette tape' made of DNA has the capacity to store 36 petabytes of data, which could change the future of digital ...

Ashraf Patel explores the complexities of South Africa's G20 outcomes, revealing the contradictions in multilateralism and ...

Hosts David and Gina explore how scientists over the centuries unlocked the ability to edit our genes ...

Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China ...

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Google featured a special doodle on Thursday (13 November) celebrating the molecule that holds the very blueprint of life — deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Today's Google Doodle turns the spotlight on ...

Jan Witkowski is the former executive director of the Banbury Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and an editor, with Alex Gann, of The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix. James D. Watson was ...

Few biologists have acquired the kind of celebrity status that James Watson and Francis Crick did. Their discovery of the double helical structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 is considered one of the ...

This study provides convincing evidence that homologous recombination can occur in telophase-arrested cells, independently of cohesin subunits Smc 1-3. These findings are valuable as they point to ...