What did the duo actually discover? Many people believe that American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick discovered DNA in the 1950s. In reality, this is not the case.

DNA's discovery has been called the most important biological work of the last 100 years, and the field it opened may be the scientific frontier for the next 100. By 1962, when Watson, Crick ...

But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and replicating almost all ...

Watson and Crick's discovery of DNA structure in 1953 revealed a possible mechanism for DNA replication. So why didn't Meselson and Stahl finally explain this mechanism until 1958 ...

This discovery changed the world of science and medicine forever. Crick, Watson, and Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for their work in 1962. DNA was discovered in 1869, but it took until ...

A DNA double helix illustration released by the National Human Genome Research Institute on May 15, 2012. [REUTERS/YONHAP] ...

It was only 75 years after Miescher’s discovery that Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarthy would demonstrate, in 1944, that DNA was the carrier of genetic information, followed by Francis ...

Erwin Chargaff's groundbreaking research, which showed that DNA base pairs had a complementary relationship, laid the foundation for James Watson's and Francis Crick's DNA model. When word spread that ...

Gene editing can cure illnesses, ensure global food security, conserve species and more. But its risks of misuse are ...

The seminal paper by James Watson and Francis Crick on the discovery of the DNA double helix was published in Nature 70 years ago this week. Many believe the eureka moment came when Watson was shown ...

The discovery for me affirmed the exquisite ... of the molecule and how it worked remained hidden. The Watson- Crick model revealed DNA as having a helical shape, like a ladder where the long ...