Watson’s 1953 discovery revealed the structure of DNA, the molecule that carries hereditary information, paving the way for genetic engineering, gene therapy and modern biotechnology ...

Who was James D Watson? At 25, James D. Watson stepped into a world of science that was about to change forever. He played a ...

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

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.

That discovery, made with co-researchers Francis Crick and Maurice H.F. Wilkins, led to a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick moved ...

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 ...

In 1990, Watson was named to lead the Human Genome Project, whose goal was to determine the order of the 3 billion chemical units that constitute humans' full complement of DNA ...

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure, has died at 97. The Nobel Prize winner made the groundbreaking ...

James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died. Watson was 97 years old and passed away after a brief illness. His groundbreaking ...