A centuries-old sketch may be holding more than artistic secrets—it might carry traces of Leonardo da Vinci himself. A team ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), with collaborators from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), ...

This week researchers from the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project announced they have made the kind of breakthrough you might ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most ...

Scientists have recovered a sample of DNA from a Leonardo da Vinci drawing that could belong to the Renaissance polymath.

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Relocating Black cemeteries in Virginia reveals how America has long denied full humanity, and how to reclaim it.

Researchers are investigating the role of non-coding DNA, or junk DNA, in regulating astrocytes, brain cells involved in ...

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