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Professor Brian Cox ‘excited’ to receive Francis Crick Institute scholarship - The 57-year-old will present a new podcast ...
By revealing the molecular mechanisms behind the peacekeeping abilities of specialized immune cells, scientists are ...
In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...
DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...
Francis Crick, whose co-discovery of the structure of DNA launched the modern genetics revolution and opened the road to biotechnology, has died in La Jolla at age 88.
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered that the heart's own contractions trigger biological signals that guide the formation of a functional beating heart.
Francis Crick was a pioneer molecular biologist who is credited, along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, with discovering the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. The trio won the ...
"Francis is an atheist," Barondes, age 70, told me a few months before Crick's death. "He wants to remove the element of a divine power at work in biology. He is looking for solid, scientific answers.
The drama that surrounded Francis Crick and James Watson’s 1953 unveiling of the structure of DNA is no secret — Watson described the heated competition between two British research groups in ...
Francis Crick, who won the Nobel Prize with colleague James Watson for revealing the double-helix structure of DNA, died in 2004 at the age of 88 after battling colon cancer.