For multiple decades following Miescher's discovery, most scientists continued to believe that protein, not DNA, was the carrier of hereditary information.

In 1963, Popular Science reported on the Nobel Prize-winning discovery, and Rosalind Franklin⁠—the woman who was left out of the accolades.

The individual lived 4,500 years ago, and his genome is offering new insights into ancient Egyptians and the lives they led.

DNA is as old as life itself – but we have only really discovered what it looks like and how it works over the last 70 years or so. Lots of scientists, working over many centuries, have been … ...

Scientists Extracted DNA From the Dirt to Learn More About the 19,000-Year-Old ‘Red Lady’ Story by Darren Orf • 14h. First discovered in 2010, ...

Erwin Chargaff was one of a handful of scientists who expanded on Levene's work by uncovering additional details of the structure of DNA, thus further paving the way for Watson and Crick.

It is the famous lightbulb-going-off story every school kid learns: How James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, cementing their place in scientific history. But as William ...

German composer Beethoven had hepatitis B infection and was genetically predisposed to liver disease, according to scientists who sampled DNA from five locks of his hair.

A group of scientists have uncovered a new chapter of the "human story" in Southeast Asia thanks to a partially preserved skeleton dating back approximately 7,200 years. A new peer-reviewed study ...

Scientists have made an "exciting" discovery of ancient human DNA that they say will allow them to piece together the mysterious ancestry of the people in Southeast Asia.