A woman has claimed to be Miley Cyrus’ biological mother (Picture: Getty Images) A woman claiming to be Miley Cyrus’ biological mother has alleged that she became pregnant with the singer after she ...

Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings (NYSE: DNA) shares are trading higher Monday afternoon, up over 8%, following the announcement of a strategic partnership with Carnegie Mellon University under the Advanced ...

Radiation in deep space isn’t just dangerous — it’s colonization-ending. Even the best shielding fails on long trips, and a single day on Europa could kill you. NASA is already testing CRISPR gene ...

Is the open floor home — the ubiquitous layout popularized by HGTV — finally waning in popularity? Some experts say so, with designer Allison Handler telling Good Housekeeping, "Open-concepts have ...

Molecular diagnostics firm BillionToOne raised $314 million in the DNA test maker’s upsized initial public offering but saw share values slide after the first day of trading. The Menlo Park, ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died at age 97. Born in Chicago in 1928, Watson made the groundbreaking discovery at just 24 years old alongside British ...

For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...

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 D. Watson, whose role as co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 made him one of the key figures in the rise of molecular biology as well as the obvious choice to be first ...