James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the ...
A complicated set of feelings emerged on the Torrey Pines mesa Friday with the passing of molecular biologist James Watson, ...
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 D. Watson, an Indiana University alumnus and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, died Thursday in a hospice center ...
James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...
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 ...
James Watson -- the Nobel laureate co-credited with the pivotal discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, but whose career ...
The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...
His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...