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

He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply controversial figure to the end.

James Watson – the Nobel laureate co-credited with the discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, but whose reputation was ...

Who was Watson’s partner in solving codes? Anyone who says “Crick” and not “Holmes” must be a lover of biology.

James D. Watson, the man who helped reveal the shape of life itself, has died at 97. His discovery of DNA’s double helix ...

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

Guided by the work of Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953, a finding that gave rise to the modern field of molecular biology.

Watson’s 1953 discovery revealed the structure of DNA, the molecule that carries hereditary information, paving the way for genetic engineering, gene therapy and modern biotechnology ...

When we learn about human genetics in high school biology class, one of the most basic things we learn about is the DNA double helix, the twisting ladder-shaped structure that holds our genetic code.

James Watson, who has died aged 97, was the 25-year-old American biologist who in 1953, with Francis Crick, revealed the double helix structure of DNA, the chemical from which genes are made. For this ...

Odile Crick, an artist whose original sketch of the double helix of DNA, the genetic blueprint for life, became a symbol of modern molecular biology, died July 5 at her home in La Jolla (San Diego ...

I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood.” James Watson’s mischievous opening line of The Double Helix raised many eyebrows at the time, but even Crick wouldn’t quarrel with it now. Still ...