His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

Reptiles on a Mexican island were considered an invasive species, but DNA evidence proves they beat humans to the island by ...

Researchers say well over 100,000 spiders from two different species coexist in this remarkable underground metropolis for ...

The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...

Millions struggle with depression and anxiety, often enduring long waits for effective treatment. Scientists in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany are developing a genetic test to predict which medications ...

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died ...

James Watson’s work on the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA led to a revolution in biology and genetics ...

Chemo and surgery failed to treat Diane Davis' advanced cancer. Things seemed hopeless until genetic testing found an ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA helped to strengthen a US research institute and wrote a classic textbook, but also ...

Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died ...