Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: James D. Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA helix and father of the Human Genome Project, stands inside a laboratory at ...

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 ...

By blending scientific accuracy with creative design, one builder hopes to make the history of DNA accessible, interactive, ...

DNA's iconic double helix does more than "just" store genetic information. Under certain conditions, it can temporarily fold ...

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 ...

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...

(She died in 1958.) Watson and Crick built Tinker Toy-like models to work out the molecule’s structure. One Saturday morning in 1953, after fiddling with bits of cardboard he had carefully cut to ...

U.S. biologist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, poses for a portrait at an exhibition in Berlin on Oct. 11, 2004. President of ...

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 ...

FILE - President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov, right, returns a Nobel prize medal which was sold at auction to a Russian businessman, to U.S. Nobel laureate, biologist James ...