Deoxyribonucleic acid, more commonly known as DNA, is a complex molecule that contains all of the information necessary to build and maintain an organism. All living things have DNA within their cells ...

Watson and Crick discovered DNA’s structure, but other scientists paved the way for them. James Watson and Francis Crick discovered DNA’s structure in 1953, but other scientists paved the way for them ...

Scientists recently captured a high-resolution video of DNA shimmying into weird shapes in order to squeeze inside cells. Now, a group of researchers in the United Kingdom has captured high-definition ...

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 ...