Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

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

With “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb aims for the tricky “middle path”: a life vivid enough to ...

That discovery, made with co-researchers Francis Crick and Maurice H.F. Wilkins, led to a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick moved west to La Jolla’s Salk Institute in 1976, and Watson, who died Thirsday at ...

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

Ovid Therapeutics announced it will name its president and chief operating officer Meg Alexander as its new CEO – replacing Jeremy Levin, effective January 1, 2026. She will also join the board of ...

Background Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) is a chronic allergic disease characterised by oesophageal epithelial remodelling, barrier dysfunction and inflammation. The transcription factor forkhead ...

American geneticist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. Born on April 6, 1928 in ...

Sohini Ramachandran is a professor of biology, data science, and computer science at Brown University. C. Brandon Ogbunu is ...

Watson shared a 1962 Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for discovering that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to ...

James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering the structure of DNA, died last week at the age of 97. He was a ...