DNA pioneer in black intelligence row
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James Watson embroiled in fresh controversy over assertion that black people are less intelligent than whites.
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Maurice Wilkins, who won a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on DNA but remained forever in the shadows of his peers, aged 88, King's College London said.
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed black people are less intelligent than whites, has pulled out of a book tour and gone home, his publicist said Friday.
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Why one effort to collect genetic data is looking for celebrities and billionaires.
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Sep 09 - The genetic profiles held by police for criminal investigations are not sophisticated enough to prevent false identifications, according to the father of DNA finger printing.
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An investigation into the potential for designing drug treatments based on a personâs genetic makeup has been launched today by the Royal Society, the UKâs national academy of science.
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Genetics pioneer Craig Venter has news from the frontiers of biology.
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A Harvard biologist scores on three fronts with a genetic discovery in diabetes, an advance toward curing a rare children's disease and a $500,000 award for scientific creativity. Fifth in a series profiling the MacArthur Foundation 'genius award' winners. By Kari Lynn Dean.
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Â· 75% of young black males will soon be on DNA filesÂ· Action proposed to break 'web of disadvantage'
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The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA made another breakthrough Thursday, this time as the subject of research. James Watson, 79, became the first person to receive his own personal genome map, a breakdown of his DNA that could show illnesses he's predisposed to contracting.
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LEICESTER, England Sept. 8, 2004 - One morning 20 years ago, Alec Jeffreys stumbled upon DNA fingerprinting, identifying the patterns of genetic material that are unique to almost every individual.
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A prominent New York scientific laboratory suspended Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Dr. James Watson on Thursday night over racially insensitive comments he was quoted as making in a newspaper interview earlier in the week.
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A difference of opinion about the genetic basis of race has emerged between scientists at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University and some other geneticists.
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Experts at Cardiff University are leading a study of the DNA of thousands of people as part of research into Alzheimer's disease.
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'You disgust me!!!!!!' FoTW In case you missed it, Nobel prize winner James Watson recently got himself into a bit of trouble after claiming that black people are less intelligent than white people.â¦
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Prior to these experiments, protein was believed to hold our hereditary destiny. After Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase, DNA steps up to the plate.
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James Watson, the 79-year-old scientific icon made famous by his work in DNA, has set off an international furor with comments to a London newspaper about intelligence levels among blacks.