Scientists have recently turned their attention to the DNA of an ancient predator, the shark, in the fight against cancer. The remarkable biological resilience of sharks, honed over hundreds of ...

Scientists searching for novel ways to fight cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead tucked away inside the cells of the bowhead whale. The findings, published in the journal Nature, ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

Serial rapist Sihle Makaula’s reign of terror ended with four life terms and 63 years' imprisonment in the Western Cape, not because victims could identify him, but ...