Scientists found that DNA’s phosphate groups can direct chemical reactions to make the correct mirror-image form of drug ...

MANILA, Philippines – DNA — formerly known as the Mitra Sisters — never planned on being in a girl group together. In fact, ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

The scientist leaves behind a complicated legacy after making a slew of offensive remarks during the later part of his life.

A new gene-editing technique enables the correction of multiple genetic mutations simultaneously, transforming the prospects ...

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

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...

His collaboration with biophysicist Francis Crick on the molecular key to all living organisms would make him one of the most ...

Photos and letters show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA.

The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA helped to strengthen a US research institute and wrote a classic textbook, but also ...

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

James Dewey Watson, Nobel Prize winner and “semi-professional loose cannon” whose racist views made him a scientific pariah ...