Computational chemists at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed a ...

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 ...

Studying how single DNA molecules behave helps us to better understand genetic disorders and design better drugs. Until now however, examining DNA molecules one-by-one was a slow process.

Computational chemists at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed a ...

The fixed idea that DNA is only a molecule that stores genetic information is being challenged. KAIST researchers have ...

For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...

James Watson, who co-won the Nobel Prize for discovering DNA's structure, was a towering and controversial figure in science. Watson attended the University of Chicago at age 15, initially intending ...