Diagrams: Short section of DNA, 1951 -- Chemical structures of the DNA bases, 1951 -- Covalent bonds of the sugar-phosphate backbone -- Schematic view of a nucleotide -- Mg** ions binding phosphate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Watson was credited as the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. Watson was a Nobel laureate and the former Chancellor of ...

(AP) - 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 ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson's former employer, confirmed the American scientist's death on Nov. 7 Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. DANIEL MORDZINSKI/AFP via ...

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, according to ...

James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died. Watson was 97 years old and passed away after a brief illness. His groundbreaking ...

That realization was a breakthrough. It instantly suggested how hereditary information is stored and how cells duplicate their DNA when they divide. The duplication begins with the two strands of DNA ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson's former employer, confirmed the American scientist's death on Nov. 7 Legendary scientist James Watson has died at the age of 97 Watson helped discover DNA’s ...

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...