The most famous image to emerge from 20th-century biology is the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) double helix, illustrating the structure of the gene, life’s genetic material. Credit for the ...

A still image from a three-dimensional video rendering shows a key protein involved in DNA repair in many organisms. Here, ...

One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double helix. Double-strand breaks are among the most difficult forms of DNA damage ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

Infomercial channels are riddled with the next-best hair-loss solution, but those toupees, ointments, and hair plugs might ...

Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, from Cambridge, has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Khorana Prize in recognition ...

Each time a cell divides, a small section of each chromosome's protective cap—the telomere—is worn away. Most cells use an ...

The Bank of England has been accused of 'wrongheaded wokery' after revealing it could drop historical figures from banknotes ...

Consciousness gives rise to a sense of self and personal agency. The question is, how do biological processes give rise to our experience of the world, others, and ourselves?

Each time a cell divides, a small section of each chromosome's protective cap - the telomere - is worn away. Most cells use ...

Mice created using genetic material from two sperm cells have gone on to have offspring off their own, but the prospect of one day using the technique in humans has potential to cause controversy ...