James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former ...

Watson was also an outspoken and controversial figure who transformed the way science was communicated. He was the first high-profile Nobel laureate to give the general public a shockingly personal ...

Peptides are an important class of drugs. Almost 100 are approved as medicines, including insulin, human growth hormone and ...

For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty ...

Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed or shrugged off Ruth Wilson’s rashes, swelling, fevers and severe pain for six years. She saved her life by begging for one more test in an emergency room about to ...

A team of scientists is employing a technique used to detect invasive species to search for troops lost at sea.

Bucking convention at every turn, 'Pluribus' can be fitfully satisfying from scene to scene but its big ideas create a potent ...

Researchers have uncovered ancient cave art that rewrites the story of human cultural origins, The art features arranged stencils made by blowing pigment over hands and geometric signs.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced on Thursday they would refocus their philanthropic efforts on biology and AI.

Pfizer is not alone among American health-care companies in feeling under the weather. Gilead Sciences, a biotech behemoth, also sold fewer drugs. GE HealthCare, a maker of fancy scanners, said net ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...