Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar today (October 7) took the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their seminal research on DNA repair. The three scientists share equally in the prize “for ...

Fred Sanger was awarded the rare distinction of two Nobel Prizes for Chemistry ... as more was discovered about DNA, we realized that all the necessary information in living matter was contained ...

For the first time, a Nobel Prize recognized the field of anthropology, the study of humanity. Svante Pääbo, a pioneer in the study of ancient DNA, or aDNA, was awarded the 2022 prize in physiology or ...

Researchers who are awarded a Göran Gustafsson Prize are among Sweden's foremost under 45 years of age in their field. One of ...

A recent study claiming inequality of opportunity in the sciences commits statistical and conceptual errors that make its ...

This Nobel Prize is all about foundational genetics. At the heart of what makes a living organism function is the ability of double-stranded DNA to be translated by single-stranded RNA molecules.

Every cell in the human body contains the same raw genetic information, locked in our DNA. But the ... a bequest left by the ...

DNA's discovery has been called the most important ... By 1962, when Watson, Crick, and Wilkins won the Nobel Prize for physiology/medicine, Franklin had died. The Nobel Prize only goes to living ...

However, these amino acids – linked together according to a DNA blueprint – then fold into complex 3D structures, each designed for a particular function. This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

Paabo has been awarded the prestigious prize for having sequenced the genomes of our extinct relatives. Paabo is widely regarded as having pioneered the field of ancient DNA Nobel prize winner ...

Researchers have uncovered mechanisms by which mobile genetic elements integrate into the chromosomes of bacteria with linear genomes.