A long-lost trove of letters written by and to Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, has resurfaced, highlighting the tensions between the members of two English laboratories as they ...

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Michael A. Hiltzik is a Times staff writer. He last wrote for the magazine about the dispute over screenwriting credits for the film "Spider-Man." His gait is slower now, his voice no longer quite as ...

Francis Crick, who helped discover the double helix shape of DNA along with James Watson, has died aged 88. Professor Crick died at Thornton Hospital in San Diego, US, where he had been battling colon ...

Watson–Crick base pairs underpin the DNA double helix. Evidence of transient changes in base-pairing geometry highlights the fact that the information held in DNA's linear sequence is stored in three ...

Cobb (The Genetic Age), a professor emeritus of zoology at the University of Manchester, captures the era when DNA and the genetic code were still a mystery in this comprehensive biography of Francis ...

Europe's biggest biomedical laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute, has opened in London. The £650m building, behind St Pancras station and the British Library, will be home to 1,250 scientists.