Alexander Gann and Jan Witkowski unveil newly found letters between key players in the DNA story. Strained relationships and vivid personalities leap off the pages. In the summer of 1975, James Watson ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh explores the new Francis Crick Institute Europe's biggest biomedical laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute, has opened in London. The £650m building, behind St ...

The Nobel Prize medal that Francis Crick won for his role in a historic DNA discovery was sold Thursday for more than $2 million to a Shanghai biotech executive who plans to use it to promote science ...