James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Watson was both a towering and controversial figure in science. Gerhard Rauchwetter/picture alliance via Getty Images Watson ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97. The ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --James Watson, who helped his research partners to discover the double helix structure of DNA, died of unknown causes at an East Northport, N.Y., hospice at age 97. Watson's son, Rufus, ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering the structure of DNA, died last week at the age of 97. He was a scientific giant, but in the ...