Scientists found that DNA’s phosphate groups can direct chemical reactions to make the correct mirror-image form of drug ...

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

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

Watson co-discover the double-helix structure of DNA, but his reputation was later damaged by his comments on race and sex.

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 ...

A new gene-editing technique enables the correction of multiple genetic mutations simultaneously, transforming the prospects ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...

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

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

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

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