Researchers found that the body’s natural recycling system, the lysosome, plays a vital role in removing the protein that ...

The breakthrough turned the Nobel Prize-winning biologist into a hallowed figure in the world of science. But he later faced condemnation and professional censure for remarks deemed racist.

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

Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.

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

A complicated set of feelings emerged on the Torrey Pines mesa Friday with the passing of molecular biologist James Watson, ...

Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle, or stop producing essential molecules.

James Watson, who has died aged 97, was the 25-year-old American biologist who in 1953, with Francis Crick, revealed the ...

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

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

In February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an ...