Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) -Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings ...

It's a mystery that has left experts scratching their heads for decades, but just how did humans make their way from Europe ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

People with Indigenous American ancestry carry Denisovan genes that Neanderthals passed on when they mated with modern humans ...

The double helix; a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA by James D. Watson Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Object Details author Watson, James D., 1928- Notes Autobiographical ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code - a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions.