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

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

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 ...

An American biochemist whose research has helped scientists make inroads on treating coronavirus and HIV has won this year's ...

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 ...

The applied physicist explains how the structure of 52,000-year-old genes hint at the biology of an extinct animal ...

Greider — was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her help in discovering "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres." Telomeres protect our DNA, but over time our telomeres ...

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.

the prizes help remind us that we're fortunate to live in an age of new scientific advances: After DNA, after vaccinations, after theories of the big bang and sub-atomic particles. Do Nobel Prizes ...

DNA sequencing is a laboratory method used to determine the sequence of a DNA molecule. The method was developed by Frederick Sanger in 1975, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in ...

When Bragg was back in Cambridge from the 1940s, this subject proved crucial for the structural analysis of DNA and proteins. Niels Bohr won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for investigating the ...

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