Double Helix DNA Facts

James Watson, co-discoverer of shape of DNA, dies

James Watson, Co-Discoverer of DNA’s Double Helix, Leaves Behind a Troubling Legacy

James Watson, who died on Nov. 6, at age 97, of an unspecified cause, was the same James Watson who would go on to win a share of the 1962 Nobel Prize —along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins —a...

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James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix, has died aged 97

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James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix who later courted controversy, dead at 97

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James Watson, Nobel prize-winning DNA pioneer, dead at 97

James Watson -- the Nobel laureate co-credited with the pivotal discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, but whose career was later tainted by his repeated racist remarks -- has died, his former lab...

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James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97

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James Watson, famous geneticist and Nobel Prize co-winner in the structure of DNA, dies at 97

Yahoo

Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals

In 1962, scientists James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. However, it has long been believed that the trio never would've made this significant discovery if ...

STAT

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

Gizmodo

Forget the Double Helix—Scientists Discovered a New DNA Structure Inside Human Cells

Guided by the work of Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953, a finding that gave rise to the modern field of molecular biology. It was by understanding DNA’s double-helix form that ...

CERN Courier

Biology at the Bragg peak

Angelica Facoetti explains five facts accelerator physicists need to know about radiobiology to work at the cutting edge of particle therapy.

Los Angeles Times

In human cells, scientists find DNA that looks like a twisted knot instead of a double helix

Biology textbooks may be due for a rewrite. For the first time, scientists have detected a DNA structure inside living human cells that looks more like a four-stranded knot than the elegant double helix we learned about in school. The tangled shape, known ...