LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and ...

Nov 7 (Reuters) - James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and ...

Photos and letters from the archives show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA. Science Photo Library DNA is the molecule that contains the hereditary ...

James D. Watson, the controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA ushered in the age of genetics, has died at the age of 97. His work provided the foundation for the ...

Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, has died aged 97. In one of the greatest breakthroughs of the 20th Century, he identified the ...

New Delhi: James D. Watson, one of the most influential and controversial scientists of the 20th century, has died at the age of 97 in New York. Best known as the co-discoverer of DNA’s double-helix ...

For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...

Previously overlooked regions at the start of human genes have been shown to accumulate mutations far more often than would ...