Friday, June 19, 2026

DNA

November 8, 2025

DNA structure co-discoverer James Watson dies at 97 after controversial career

The discovery, which earned him the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Maurice Wilkins and Mr Crick, led to rapid advances in molecular biology.

James Watson
August 18, 2025

64% of Nigerian firstborn sons more likely to fail paternity test: New DNA Survey

According to the report, firstborn children are significantly more likely to have negative paternity test results compared to non-firstborn children.

DNA and Nigerian babies
May 15, 2025

Nine-month-old becomes first person to be cured via personal gene-editing treatment

The treatment is a result of decades-long U.S. government-funded research.

KJ Muldoon (Credit: NPR)
July 19, 2024

Australian research discovers DNA structure’s role in forming memories

Australian researchers say that they have found a specific type of DNA structure that could be key in regulating how the brain forms memories.

Australian National University
November 11, 2023

Despite evidence, Yahaya Bello claims Kogi’s history of electoral violence is media creation

“Go into record and compare my own regime and that of the previous one. The regime of Yahaya bello on the conduct of elections.”

YAHAYA BELLO; ODODO; AJAKA
July 13, 2023

U.S. Secret Service says unable to find suspect who smuggled cocaine into White House

The illegal substance was found on July 2 in a receptacle used to store electronic and personal devices prior to entering a major section of the American presidential palace.

U.S. Secret Service and White House
May 10, 2023

Woman gives birth to baby using three persons’ DNA

A baby has been born using three people’s DNA for the first time in Britain.

Newborn baby used to illustrate the story
April 27, 2023

Oral sex now leading cause of throat cancer: Report

People with “six or more lifetime oral-sex partners are 8.5 times more likely to develop oropharyngeal cancer than those who do not practise oral sex,” the report detailed.

Throat cancer
September 6, 2022

DNA/Forensic Centre: Lagos Assembly passes bill to identify abandoned, disputed children

The bill also allows the centre to decode family ties and relationships of individuals to establish an identity and identify abandoned or disputed children, etc.