DNA nanostructures are exciting new biomedical tools with myriad potential in treatment, diagnosis and disease prevention.

High-resolution imaging has revealed the internal layout of chromatin condensates, showing how DNA fibers fold and interact ...

The DNA inside our cells is constantly being damaged, and one of the worst kinds of damage is a double-strand break-when both sides of the DNA helix are cut at once. Healthy cells can normally fix ...

Jan Witkowski is the former executive director of the Banbury Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and an editor, with Alex Gann, of The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix. James D. Watson was ...

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 ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died at age 97. Born in Chicago in 1928, Watson made the groundbreaking discovery at just 24 years old alongside British ...

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson's former employer, confirmed the American scientist's death on Nov. 7 DANIEL MORDZINSKI/AFP via Getty Legendary scientist James Watson has died at the age of 97 ...

There’s no telling how the history of science might have changed if James Watson had had more fun with the binoculars he bought in 1940. He was only 12, but he bought them with his own money, and he ...

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 ...