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

Photos and letters show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA.

James Dewey Watson, Nobel Prize winner and “semi-professional loose cannon” whose racist views made him a scientific pariah ...

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

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

The chains of amino acids that make up proteins are critical to every form of life. The complex ways that these proteins fold ...

Betrayal, ambition and the double helix: turning Rosalind Franklin’s story and the discovery of the structure of DNA into an ...

Longevity and disease resistance in humans may soon be transformed by studying and emulating the genetic strategies encoded ...

The manuscript by Hensley and Yildez studies the mechanical behavior of kinesin under conditions where the z-component of the applied force is minimized. The important study shows that much of the ...

Resonant, a Renew Biotechnologies subsidiary developing novel diagnostic tools for neurodegenerative diseases, announces the receipt of "DNA Sequencing Innovation Of The Year" in the fifth annual ...