But some colleagues and admirers in Israel suggest another reason for the muted reaction is that Mr Mokyr is based in America ...

When your body’s immune cells attack you instead of protecting you, today’s treatments tamp down the friendly fire but they ...

In a life defined by extremes, Nobel Prize-winning biologist James Watson, who directed Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1968 to 1994, died Nov. 6th at the age of 97.

Over the course of just three days recently, five scientists affiliated with the University of California won Nobel prizes for discoveries that can help us more effectively treat conditions such as ...

Dr. Ada E. Yonath, a postdoctoral fellow at the Mellon College of Science in 1969, received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her studies of the ribosome. “Ada Yonath at the Weizmann ...

Two Japanese scientists among this year's Nobel laureates shared the view on Monday that humans are still necessary despite the rapid evolution of ...

Nobel laureate who helped to sequence the first bacterial and human genomes.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — James D. Watson, the pioneering molecular biologist whose 1953 co‑discovery of the DNA ...

In February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an ...

James D. Watson, an Indiana University alumnus and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, died Thursday in a hospice center ...

James Watson, who helped discover DNA’s double-helix structure, has died at the age of 97 following a brief illness.

James Watson helped his research partners to discover the double helix structure of DNA and died of unknown causes at an East ...