Photos and letters show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA.
Often celebrated as a pioneer of genetics alongside Francis Crick, racist and sexist remarks tarnished his reputation in ...
Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...
In his later years, Watson's reputation was tarnished by comments on genetics and race that led him to be ostracized by the ...
In both physics and chemistry, the mesoscopic scale refers to the length scale on which the properties of a material or phenomenon can be studied, without entering into a discussion about the behavior ...
James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...
The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a new x-ray crystallography image of DNA. The image was made by PhD student ...
Scientists have created an unprecedented 3-dimensional structural model of a key molecular "machine" known as the BAF complex, which modifies DNA architecture and is frequently mutated in cancer and ...
As illustrated with OnScreen Gene Transcription in our May 1 column, OnScreen Science now has a few very nice iPad apps to teach students about DNA and RNA. The OnScreen DNA Model app was the original ...