Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman looks into a microscope. In 1962, scientists James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in ...

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 97.The ...

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 ...