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

The discovery of the DNA structure sparked a flurry of new research, birthing fields like molecular biology, biotechnology, ...

He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply controversial figure to the end.

James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist most known for co-winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or ...

A quest to discover new antibiotics is taking a Cal Poly biochemistry research team back in time millions of years as they ...

By adapting techniques originally used to study ancient DNA from archaeological specimens, researchers at the University of Chicago were able to recover genetic information from nearly century-old ...

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 ...

Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's ...

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

Researchers have discovered that the enzyme NUDT5 utilizes its structure to exercise metabolic control over a key pathway in ...

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died ...