A beloved community figure in Harrison County who was known for being Santa at the Meadowbrook Mall lost his battle with brain cancer.

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

Gene Whitaker enjoyed golfing, and many other activities in The Villages. He was a gate attendant for 20 years within The Villages community, and is best remembered as the always friendly, smiling ...

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 died last week at the age of 97, had several graceless moments in his life, including serious streaks of misogyny, racism and homophobia. And while these lamentable incidents ...

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

He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply controversial figure to the end.

In a life defined by extremes, Nobel Prize-winning biologist James Watson, who directed Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1968 to 1994, died Nov. 6th at the age of 97.

The breakthrough turned him into a hallowed figure, but he later faced professional censure for offensive remarks.

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 ...