James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died. Watson was 97 years old and passed away after a brief illness. His groundbreaking ...

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 ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson's former employer, confirmed the American scientist's death on Nov. 7 DANIEL MORDZINSKI/AFP via Getty Legendary scientist James Watson has died at the age of 97 ...

James Watson, one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, has died in a New York hospice facility at the age of 97. Along with fellow researchers Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, he won the 1962 ...

Welcome back to a new semester of Dissertation Diaries. As a reminder, this is the series where we highlight Ph.D. students ...

The eternal molecule / Carina Dennis & Philip Campbell -- A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid / J.D. Watson & F.H.C. Crick -- Molecular structure of deoxypentose nucleic acids / M.H.F. Wilkins, A ...

New research predicts the location of DNA sequences that can form structures besides the canonical double helix — non-B DNA — in the recently released telomere-to-telomere genomes of the great apes, ...

For the first time, scientists have witnessed the very moment DNA begins to unravel, revealing a necessary molecular event for DNA to be the molecule that codes all life. A new study from King ...

James Watson was credited as the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. Watson was a Nobel laureate and the former Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Photograph by Max S. Gerber, Redux James ...

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 ...