Xavier Cortada desperately needs your DNA — for his show, that is. With the public’s help, he plans to create a live DNA strand in a petri dish. “I am working with 400 museum visitors who will leave ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

The DNA double helix is composed of two DNA molecules whose sequences are complementary to each other. The stability of the duplex can be fine-tuned in the lab by controlling the amount and location ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97. The ...