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 ...
The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...
The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA helped to strengthen a US research institute and wrote a classic textbook, but also ...
Iain Cheeseman and colleagues reveal the underappreciated role of single genes producing multiple proteins in atypical ...
On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...
James Dewey Watson, the molecular biologist whose work helped decode the structure of DNA, died on November 6, 2025, at a ...
His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...
Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...
Unveiling a new chapter in the understanding of human genetics, scientists have discovered a hidden geometric code within our ...