They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared to patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, that they had "found the secret of life." But James Watson and Francis ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- James Watson, who rocked the human race a half-century ago by discovering the DNA molecule's double-helix structure, has only one complaint about "DNA," a documentary series in which ...

NEW YORK — The discovery of DNA's double helix structure 70 years ago opened up a world of new science — and also sparked disputes over who contributed what and who deserves credit. Much of the ...

In 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson discovered DNA and the double helix model, right? Well, this is the story, a story of science that is based on stereotypes of scientists as independent ...

Maurice Wilkins, a Nobel Prizewinning pioneer of DNA research, died Tuesday at a London hospital. He was 88. Wilkins was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 along with the two scientists ...

"Newly Revised and updated"--Cover. "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. Subtitle of first edition: The secret of life. STRI copy 39088019657196 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley ...