A scientific legend in his own time, James Watson was awarded the Nobel Prize for helping discover the structure of DNA. Tomorrow he will sell the medal for income at a Christie’s auction.
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James Watson is an American molecular biologist best known for his discovery of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953. He was born in Chicago in 1928 and attended the University of Chicago for his[…]
Dr. James Watson can’t help but speak his mind. And this has gotten the co-discoverer of DNA’s double-helix in trouble in the past. He has been called, among other things, […]
The X-ray crystallographer contributed some crucial pieces of information to Watson and Crick’s search for the double helix. But because she likely had Asperger’s syndrome, she was almost impossible to collaborate with.
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The molecular biologist’s genome is the second to ever be sequenced. The results gave him some potentially life-saving information.
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A conversation with the molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA.
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James Watson: Up until now, machines have made our lives a lot better. I don’t thing they’ve depersonalized us so far.
James Watson: If people had a longer life, human beings would progress more slowly.
James Watson: I think we’re all in favor of being alive when we’re alive. And of course, it’s how you define being alive.
Does every type of cancer require its own individualized treatment, or might there be a universal cure? Scientists James Watson and Paul Davies suggest some new and unorthodox approaches to cancer treatment.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what’s the reason why?
It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
Are we really only a moment away from “The Singularity,” a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”
The second in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.
These photos of scientific heroes and accomplishments inspire awe and curiosity.
Scientists have identified an alternative DNA structure described as a “twisted knot” inside living human cells. They’re calling it the i-motif.
The most influential contemporary scientists and their accomplishments.
Rosalind Franklin is most known for her role in first capturing the blueprint for life. Her efforts provided the evidence to deduce the double helix structure of DNA.
“In the decade since the Human Genome Project wrapped up, scientists have had a surprising amount of difficulty transforming genetic knowledge into medical treatments.”
Neuroscientists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have published the first set of data which they collected by examining thin slices of a mouse’s brain to create a 3D diagram.
“Too much experience…may restrict creativity because you know so well how things should be done that you are unable to escape to come up with new ideas.”
What happens when the complexity and magnitude of the problems facing our civilization “simply exceed our biological capabilities”?
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JASON SILVA AND TECHNO-ECOLOGIC SCHOLAR RICHARD DOYLE Richard Doyle also goes by mobius, an indicator of just how important interconnections are to him – and how transformative, […]