When James “Jim” D. Watson helped discover the structure of DNA at age 25, he earned the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine and gained renown as a scientific wunderkind. He would go on to spend much of his ...

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix and Nobel laureate, has died at 97. Celebrated for his contributions to ...

Watson co-discover the double-helix structure of DNA, but his reputation was later damaged by his comments on race and sex.

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

Watson shared a 1962 Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for discovering that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, ...

Some revolutions begin not with technology, but with a feeling. For Gregg Treinish, that feeling was guilt. He was spending ...

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Using DNA testing and forensic investigative genetic genealogy, the Valencia County Sheriff's Office has identified human remains found in 2022 in the Tierra Grande area. Those found remains have been ...

James Watson, Nobel Prize-winning American biologist who helped discover DNA's double-helix structure, has died. Once ...

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

Betrayal, ambition and the double helix: turning Rosalind Franklin’s story and the discovery of the structure of DNA into an ...