At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the new science writer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

With “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb aims for the tricky “middle path”: a life vivid enough to ...

Researchers have analyzed a sample of DNA believed to belong to Adolf Hitler, which they say reveals the dictator of Nazi ...

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure, has died at 97. The Nobel Prize winner made the groundbreaking ...

France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.

In his later years, Watson's reputation was tarnished by comments on genetics and race that led him to be ostracized by the ...

Reptiles on a Mexican island were considered an invasive species, but DNA evidence proves they beat humans to the island by ...