British biologist Francis Crick co-published a paper on the helical structure of DNA some fifty years ago. He followed a convoluted route to this discovery.

Mitochondria was once thought to be an integral part of all complex organisms. Then this organism was discovered.

The White House has announced the "microbiome moonshot" – a push to understand the human microbiome.

Scientific expertise sometimes clashes with policy-making when it comes to teaching evolution in schools

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