Yet Crick was not afraid to be wrong. Before settling on the double helix, he proposed a triple one. He published an ...

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

As imaging tools continue to get more sophisticated, researchers have been able to actually watch biological processes as they are happening in live cells. Scientists have now visualized loops of DNA ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

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

Researchers have developed a new fluorescent label that gives a clearer picture of how DNA architecture is disrupted in cancer cells. The findings could improve cancer diagnoses for patients. Their ...

Too often in old age, he made unjustified racial remarks in highly offensive ways with immense ‘titanic’ public consequences ...

A 13-year study of DNA samples collected from the 4,000-year-old Shimao site, a complex of gigantic prehistoric ruins on the ...

James D. Watson, the molecular biologist who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died at the age of 97. The Nobel laureate shared the 1962 Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and ...

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of ...