Exploring human infancy through the lens of primitive technology reveals surprising insights into biology and survival. From ...

The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among ...