James Watson, who shared the Nobel prize for his work on DNA’s molecular structure, has died at the age of 97. Working alongside Francis Crick, Watson helped to uncover DNA’s famous double helix ...

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 97. The ...

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Watson’s role in decoding DNA, the genetic blueprint for life, would have been enough to establish him as one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.

The wife of a missing Claiborne County man last seen in 2017 has been charged with theft over allegations that she fraudulently claimed his Social Security benefits for more than four years. Supreme ...

C-G base pairs in the DNA structure require more energy to break these bonds. Therefore, a higher abundance of C-G base pairs in the DNA structure increases the melting temperature. Divalent Cations ...

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — 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 ...

James Watson, who has died aged 97, was the 25-year-old American biologist who in 1953, with Francis Crick, revealed the double helix structure of DNA, the chemical of which genes are made; for this ...

For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...