A complicated set of feelings emerged on the Torrey Pines mesa Friday with the passing of molecular biologist James Watson, ...
James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died ...
James D. Watson, an Indiana University alumnus and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, died Thursday in a hospice center ...
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
Watson’s 1953 discovery revealed the structure of DNA, the molecule that carries hereditary information, paving the way for genetic engineering, gene therapy and modern biotechnology ...
He was part of the team that distinguished the twisted-ladder structure, which helped guide a revolution in medicine, as well as other areas such as crime-fighting.
Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...
The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...
His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...