He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply controversial figure to the end.

The discovery of the DNA structure sparked a flurry of new research, birthing fields like molecular biology, biotechnology, ...

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

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former ...

In 1953, 25-year-old researcher James Watson from the University of Cambridge in the UK visited Maurice Wilkins, a researcher at King’s College. Watson, holding a preprint of a paper claiming that a ...

James Watson pioneered molecular biology through his co-discovery of DNA’s double helix structure, but his prejudiced views turned him into an outcast.

This revelation was not a mere boast but the culmination of intense research into the structure of DNA by American biologist James Watson and British physicist Francis Crick. Their discovery has since ...

The Nobel Prize winner felt ostracised by the scientific community over his comments on race and intelligence.

The DNA molecule is located in the cell nucleus as a densely packed complex of DNA and protein, known as chromatin. Wrapped in sections around a core of special proteins known as histones, the DNA ...

In September, David Baltimore — the scientist who discovered reverse transcriptase, a breakthrough often described as one of ...

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