For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the foundation ...

(AP) - James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was ...

One of the scientists who discovered the shape of DNA has died. Dr. James Watson was 97 years old. Watson, according to The New York Times, was “one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA ...