It’s generous to say that it took until just after the eight-minute mark in the second quarter of Oregon’s visit to New Jersey to prove what... Frank Stahl, a professor emeritus of molecular biology, ...

Yet Crick was not afraid to be wrong. Before settling on the double helix, he proposed a triple one. He published an ...

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 of which genes are made; for this ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed how DNA replicates, helping pave the way for a revolution in genetics ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CLARIFICATION: This story, which includes excerpts from a story that aired in 1993, neglects to mention the significant contribution of scientist Rosalind Franklin, who produced the ...

With this spring’s 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA’s structure, much of the attention will rightly focus on the two men who dreamed up the double helix, James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Watson attended the University of Chicago at age 15, initially intending to become an ...