James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from monumental discoveries to sexism and cutthroat competition

James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should ...

Scientists map DNA folding at single base-pair resolution in living cells

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...
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First ever atlas of brain development shows how stem cells turn into neurons

A collection of studies that chart how mammalian brain cells grow and differentiate is a ‘very valuable’ tool for ...

Government and Ofqual to make major change to GCSEs for September 2028

The Government also said it would replace the current computer science GCSE, while exploring the possibility of a new data ...

Powerful tool can map gene regulation at single-nucleotide resolution

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...