James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should ...

Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's ...

Georgina Ferry is a science writer based in Oxford, UK. A revised edition of her biography Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin has just been published by Bloomsbury Reader. Until that time, biologists had still ...

DNA isn't just a long string of genetic code, but an intricate 3D structure folded inside each cell. That means the tools ...

This monumental scientific achievement occurred within a context of intense international collaboration, rapid technical ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

Few science books have managed to make readers laugh, gasp, and learn all at once, but The Double Helix by James D. Watson ...

Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle, or stop producing essential molecules.

His collaboration with biophysicist Francis Crick on the molecular key to all living organisms would make him one of the most ...