The new technique, which relies on small organic molecules and which is called "asymmetric organocatalysis" is widely used in pharmaceutica...

Winning the Nobel prize is often the peak of professional achievement, but chemistry laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier, who received the cove...

The laureates will receive their medals and diplomas next week.

In the CRISPR system, a specific region in the bacterial genome collects small DNA snippets of the invading phage between repeat-spacer arr...

Like the prizes themselves, the Nobel committees awarding them are also male-dominated.

They are only the sixth and seventh women in history to receive the Nobel in Chemistry.

No Literature Prize will be given out for the first time in 70 years because of a #MeToo scandal.

Chinese scientists made headlines when they used a gene-editing technique to modify the genomes of human embryos for the first time.