They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared ... for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and ...

The landmark ideas of Watson and Crick relied heavily on the work of other scientists ... double-helical model for the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick's discovery was also made possible ...

Scientists still needed to figure out this molecule's structure to be sure, and to understand how it worked. In 1948, Linus Pauling discovered ... ray diffraction images of DNA.

Earlier that morning, in the nearby Cavendish laboratory, the two scientists had discovered the structure ... DNA had a helix shape. Without her knowledge, one of her colleagues showed the picture ...

Beyond the ladder-like structure described ... was obtained in 1952, when scientist Rosalind Franklin used a process called X-ray diffraction to capture images of DNA molecules (Figure 5).

DNA replication ... damage the DNA structure or strategies that capture only short stretches of DNA, preventing a comprehensive picture. In a new study published in Cell, scientists from Gladstone ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the molecular "blueprint" carrying the genetic instructions that influence the growth, ...