Photos and letters from the archives show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA. Science Photo Library DNA is the molecule that contains the hereditary ...

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 ...

A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...

Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player. Lore has it that the ...

Reconstructing accurately how the parts of a complex molecular are held together knowing only how the molecule distorts and breaks up. This was the challenge taken on by a research team led by SISSA’s ...

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 ...

DNA is the molecule that contains the hereditary information for cells. The legendary race to uncover its structure began when American biologist James Watson (right) arrived at the University of ...