David Botstein, Princeton’s Anthony B. Evnin ‘62 Professor of Genomics, Emeritus, and an emeritus professor of molecular ...

Centuries after Leonardo da Vinci died far from his Tuscany homeland, pieces of his life — his sketches, his scribbles, his remains — continue to amaze. Now, scientists are chasing his ghost through ...

Understanding the genetic blueprint of a population is one of the central challenges of modern biomedical science. In Cyprus, ...

“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018. The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Presumed portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), by an Unknown Artist. The painting hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It’s been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. Yet, in those intervening ...

DNA stores the instructions for life and, along with enzymes and other molecules, computes everything from hair color to risk of developing diseases. Harnessing that prowess and immense storage ...