A Lund University study connects repetitive noncoding DNA with a gene-regulatory pathway that influences developmental timing ...

Why do human brains vary in size and shape, and how did our brains expand over evolutionary time to give us our enhanced cognitive abilities? Researchers at the UNC Department of Genetics and the UNC ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human genome—comprising about 17% of the genome. It is commonly called a "jumping gene" or ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. Chromosomes are thread-like structures that carry a cell's ...

Humans and chimpanzees share more than 96% of their protein-coding DNA, yet human brains are roughly three times larger and ...

In the 1930s, Hermann Muller was the first researcher to note that the ends of chromosomes had unique properties. Muller ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 James Watson also helped start the Human Genome Project and wrote a popular memoir. DANIEL MORDZINSKI/AFP via Getty Images James Dewey Watson, the famed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Watson in 1993: he called Prince Charles 'a Luddite' and controversially portrayed Rosalind Franklin as being dour, dowdy ...

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...