CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — James D. Watson, the pioneering molecular biologist whose 1953 co‑discovery of the DNA ...

That discovery, made with co-researchers Francis Crick and Maurice H.F. Wilkins, led to a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick moved ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

In February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an ...

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

Explore CRISPR technology explained, gene editing science, DNA modification, and genetic engineering ethics—discover how ...

James D Watson, the Nobel-winning co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix, has died at 97. His legacy blends scientific triumph ...

Oxford and Cambridge researchers who produced the image map which uncovers the secrets of why humans get disease say it ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual ... research from Northwestern Engineering’s Vadim Backman reveals a second “language” of life: the “geometric code” embedded ...

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former ...