The term DNA has become a trendy catchphrase, used to describe the essence of individuals and groups. But what exactly is DNA ...

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.

A crucial contribution. Rosalind Franklin made a crucial contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, but some would say she got a raw deal. Biographer Brenda Maddox called ...

A previously overlooked letter and a news article that was never published, both written in 1953, add to other lines of evidence showing Rosalind Franklin was an equal contributor — not a victim — in ...

Franklin, working mostly alone ... fit the experimental data that it was almost immediately accepted. DNA's discovery has been called the most important biological work of the last 100 years ...

Rather, DNA was first identified in the late 1860s by Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher. Then, in the decades following Miescher's discovery ... researchers Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins ...

None would survive. These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage all perished, many just a few miles from where they’d started—although the bodies ...

This discovery changed the world of science ... who were using a new technique called crystallography to study DNA. Rosalind Franklin, from the King's College team, made an X-ray diffraction ...

Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl's 1957 demonstration of DNA replication is considered "the most beautiful experiment in biology." Their density-shift demonstrations not only have stood the test of ...