Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

Pictures of DNA often look very tidy—the strands of the double helix neatly wind around each other, making it seem like ...

Who was Watson’s partner in solving codes? Anyone who says “Crick” and not “Holmes” must be a lover of biology.

With “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb aims for the tricky “middle path”: a life vivid enough to ...

James Watson, who has died aged 97, was the 25-year-old American biologist who in 1953, with Francis Crick, revealed the double helix structure of DNA, the chemical from which genes are made. For this ...

Today’s Google Doodle for the India region shows the base of generic codes - DNA or Deoxyribonucleic Acid. On the purpose of ...

James “Jim” D. Watson, who helped discover the structure of DNA at age 25 and went on to spend 21 years as a Harvard biology ...

James Watson, who died last week at the age of 97, had several graceless moments in his life, including serious streaks of misogyny, racism and homophobia. And while these lamentable incidents ...

Ecuadorans are today to vote on whether to allow the return of foreign military bases and the drafting of a new constitution that could give the country’s president more power. Voters are to decide on ...

A network for creative professionals has marked 10 years of championing collaboration in the creative industries. In the ...

Whether she stabilizes the group, disrupts the balance or sparks a full-blown behavioral mutation, Ashtyn’s about to find out ...