A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix. When you purchase through links on our site ...

With the Signer DNA, Franklin was able to exploit a discovery ... (X-ray diffraction experiments in the 1930s had inadvertently used a mixture of the A and B forms of DNA, yielding muddy patterns ...

Rosalind Franklin, a scientist at the University of London, had already documented the helical nature of DNA when Watson and ...

The leader of the team assigned her to work on DNA with a graduate student. Franklin's assumption was that it was her own project. The laboratory's second-in-command, Maurice Wilkins, was on ...

A previously overlooked letter and a news article that was never published, both written in 1953, add to other lines of evidence showing Rosalind Franklin was an equal contributor — not a victim — in ...

Descendants of members of the Franklin expedition are encouraged to contact Stenton. "We are extremely grateful to this family for sharing their history with us and for providing DNA samples ...

Much of the controversy comes from a central idea: that James Watson and Francis Crick — the first to figure out DNA’s shape — stole data from another scientist named Rosalind Franklin.