An article by UAB professor Joan-Ramon Daban analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have ...

In 1963, Popular Science reported on the Nobel Prize-winning discovery, and Rosalind Franklin⁠—the woman who was left out of the accolades.

Despite her contribution to the discovery of DNA's helical structure, Rosalind Franklin was not named a prize winner: She had died of cancer four years earlier, at the age of 37.

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

April 25 is DNA Day, commemorating the anniversary of the publication of the structure of DNA. But how has DNA imaging changed since 1953, and what have we learned?

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have uncovered how the double helix structure of DNA is opened to allow DNA replication. The work could lead to further studies to better understand this ...

Although James Watson and Francis Crick determined the double-helical structure of DNA, DNA itself was identified nearly 90 years earlier by Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher. While studying white ...

Our findings also demonstrate that the rules of complementarity that Watson and Crick defined in their iconic double-helical model of DNA structure need to be expanded.

UNL chemist Xiao Cheng Zeng and his team discovered double helixes of ice molecules that resemble the structure of DNA and self-assemble under high pressure inside carbon nanotubes. This discovery ...

From the Popular Science archive, the story of how Watson, Crick, Wilkins, and Franklin worked out the structure of life.