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

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

James Watson helped his research partners to discover the double helix structure of DNA and died of unknown causes at an East ...

Dr. Watson was one of three recipients of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for decoding the genetic blueprint for life.

James D. Watson, an American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA ushered in the age of genetics, has died ...

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

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

James Watson, the American scientist who co-discovered the structure of DNA and won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has died.

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

The 33-year-old man was "a professional organist who had recently married and moved to Ventura County," deputies said.

Kate and Gerry McCann have said they “take no pleasure in the result” after a Polish woman, who claimed to be their missing ...

A Polish woman who claimed to be Madeleine McCann faces deportation after being convicted of harassing the missing girl’s parents by turning up at their home and repeatedly begging for a DNA test.