Professor Brian Cox ‘excited’ to receive Francis Crick Institute scholarship - The 57-year-old will present a new podcast ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

By revealing the molecular mechanisms behind the peacekeeping abilities of specialized immune cells, scientists are ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered that the heart's own contractions trigger biological signals that ...

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.

Biologist Francis Crick had a “eureka” moment in 1953, and made sure people knew it. Crick told patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England that he and fellow biologist James Watson had ...

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 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.

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 ...