There’s more to dna than just the double helix we know and love: under some conditions this familiar molecule can take on ...
Google featured a special doodle on Thursday (13 November) celebrating the molecule that holds the very blueprint of life — deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Today's Google Doodle turns the spotlight on ...
Description: dna isn’t the simple, loose double-helix you might see in a biology textbook, so isolating single strands of it can be next to impossible. But with some simple tricks of physics, ...
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 ...
James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97.The ...
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 ...