David Baker, Nobel laureate and UW adjunct professor, gave a public lecture discussing the development and applications of ...

As genomics increasingly shapes modern agriculture, Digital Sequence Information (DSI), the digital data derived from a plant’s DNA, has become a powerful tool for improving how crop genetic resources ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human ...

Over decades of covering the incredible advances being made in biology, I’ve seen how some ideas become fashionable, get intense media coverage for a few years, and then fade from public view again.

Pets just don't live long enough. We spend time, emotion, energy and lots of money caring for them, all while knowing we'll invariably outlive them. It's unsurprising, then, that with the advent of ...

Often celebrated as a pioneer of genetics alongside Francis Crick, racist and sexist remarks tarnished his reputation in later years. James Watson was credited as the co-discoverer of the structure of ...

Romulus and Remus, two of the three dire wolf pups created by using ancient DNA, cloning, and modified gray wolf genes are celebrating their first birthday, sparking scientific excitement and debate ...

The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The way the federal agents swarmed Jack Schubarth’s ranch in Montana on a ...

Worker ants perform important tasks like gathering food, taking care of eggs and larvae and nest building. However, some species of ants cannot produce workers through reproductive means with their ...

BUENOS AIRES - They look like ordinary foals, docile with honey brown coats and white facial patches, content to spend their days munching alfalfa in a cordoned-off pasture in rural Buenos Aires ...