Because I don't want to go to bed with two consecutive posts pertaining to Star Wars staring me in the face (no matter how good, or how ...

Nearly sixty years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick figured out what DNA - that mega-long molecule containing the blueprints of organic l...

In April of 1945, during the final days of the European theater and with the approaching rumble of Soviet tanks heralding the collapse of hi...

For all these years it's been assumed that every cell of an organism shared the same DNA. The differentiation between cells only arisin...

A guy in Boston named Christopher Knight (so far as I can tell there's no relation :-) believes that he is the grandson of infamous mob ...

It's like Barney Fife gone zealous with a genetics lab: legislators in the state of Washington are mulling the idea of getting DNA sampl...