A rediscovered skeleton found on Budapest’s Margaret Island has been confirmed as Duke Béla of Macsó, a descendant of Hungary ...

Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died.

In 1990, Watson was named to lead the Human Genome Project, whose goal was to determine the order of the 3 billion chemical units that constitute humans' full complement of DNA ...

James Dewey Watson, the molecular biologist whose work helped decode the structure of DNA, died on November 6, 2025, at a ...

Modern genetics reveals that over 50 genes across many chromosomes—not just X and Y—govern sex development. The term “sex ...

On average, females live longer than males almost everywhere in the world, and have done so throughout most of history. While stereotypes suggest many possible reasons, a team of researchers employed ...

CircRNAs are a class of covalently closed circular non-coding RNAs formed through back-splicing of precursor mRNAs, lacking 5′ caps and 3′ poly(A) tails, and are widely present in eukaryotic cells.