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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.

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

In his later years, Watson's reputation was tarnished by comments on genetics and race that led him to be ostracized by the ...

FILE PHOTO: James D. Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA helix and father of the Human Genome Project, stands inside a ...

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died ...

The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...