IMAGINE DNA. Chances are, the double helix leaps to mind. Ever since James Watson and Francis Crick proposed this elegant structure in 1953, the image of two gracefully intertwined ribbons framing the ...

This month marks the centenary of the birth of Rosalind Elsie Franklin, who was born in Notting Hill, London, on July 25, 1920. Her experimental studies on the structure of DNA gave rise to the double ...

Exactly 66 years ago, on April 25, 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published their famous article that showed that the shape of DNA is a double helix. They weren’t able to see DNA directly - it’s ...