This monumental scientific achievement occurred within a context of intense international collaboration, rapid technical ...

Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's ...

Erwin Chargaff's groundbreaking research, which showed that DNA base pairs had a complementary relationship, laid the foundation for James Watson's and Francis Crick's DNA model. When word spread that ...

One was James Watson, an American biologist from the Cavendish laboratory; the other was his British research partner, ...

In his later years, Watson's reputation was tarnished by comments on genetics and race that led him to be ostracized by the ...

Odile Crick, 86, an artist who made the first widely published sketch of the double-helix structure of DNA, died July 5 at her home in La Jolla, Calif. She had cancer. Her husband, Francis H.C. Crick, ...

James “Jim” D. Watson, who helped discover the structure of DNA at age 25 and went on to spend 21 years as a Harvard biology ...

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

Rosalind Franklin’s role in the discovery of the structure of DNA may have been different than previously believed. Franklin wasn’t the victim of data theft at the hands of James Watson and Francis ...

Remembered for breakthrough with Francis Crick, Watson was later ostracised by the scientific establishment over comments on ...