The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...
James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...
James D Watson, the pioneering scientist whose co-discovery of DNA’s double helix structure in 1953 reshaped our ...
The discovery helped open the door to more recent developments such as tinkering with the genetic makeup of living things, treating disease by inserting genes into patients, identifying human remains ...
Photos and letters show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA.