AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...

The programming language Zig is leaving GitHub after ten years. The reason is problems with GitHub Actions, chaotic job scheduling, and Microsoft's AI direction. The programming language Zig is ...

I Wanna Marry Harry producer Zig Zag has launched a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for film, TV and sports and is targeting a £20M ($26M) fund to support them. Zig Zag, which had its production arm ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the science writer at Cold Spring Harbor ...

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, according to ...

James Dewey Watson, a molecular biologist whose work helped decode the structure of DNA, died on November 6, 2025, at a hospice in East Northport, N.Y. He was 97 years old. Watson was best known for ...

France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases. By ...

With a new approach to creating thymus-targeted medicines for autoimmune diseases, Zag Bio has emerged from stealth with the help of backing from pharma giants AbbVie, Regeneron and Sanofi. The trio ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...