DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double helix—Crick laid out what he called the “central dogma” of molecular ...

Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...

The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even ...

For decades, scientists thought the noncoding parts of DNA were useless leftovers. Today, that view has completely changed.