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 ...

James Watson, the scientist who co-discovered the structure of DNA, died on Nov. 6, 2025, at the age of 97. Watson, along ...

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

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

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

DNA isn't just a long string of genetic code, but an intricate 3D structure folded inside each cell. That means the tools ...

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

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

Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died.

A presentation by scientists on a work group for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel ...

Using bacterial retrons, this method can "reno" multiple dangerous mutations simultaneously, far more efficiently than previous gene-editing methods that might succeed against a single mutation, but ...