A study conducted in part by Chicago’s Northwestern Medicine found that tanning beds not only triple the risk of melanoma, but can also damage DNA across nearly the whole skin surface. Arkansas to ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most genetic medicine uses viruses or double-stranded DNA to deliver genetic ...

UPDATE: The whale was euthanized around 3:00 p.m. Monday A young humpback whale stranded on the shore near Yachats, which captured the attention of many in Oregon and across the world, will be ...

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...

On June 17, 1985, Arlington, Texas mother Joanne Lemieux and her two daughters—12-year-old Renee and 14-year-old Danielle—were found murdered along with 17-year-old John Bradley in their home. After ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died at age 97. Born in Chicago in 1928, Watson made the groundbreaking discovery at just 24 years old alongside British ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson's former employer, confirmed the American scientist's death on Nov. 7 DANIEL MORDZINSKI/AFP via Getty Legendary scientist James Watson has died at the age of 97 ...

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, according to ...

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James D. Watson, whose role as co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 made him one of the key figures in the rise of molecular biology as well as the obvious choice to be first ...

James Watson, a Nobel laureate and former director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), died Nov. 6 at the age of 97. Watson shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Francis ...