A review of Life Story: The Race for the Double Helix, a 1987 film that dramatizes the discovery of the structure of DNA by the James Watson and Francis Crick.

DNA is more than just the secret of life--it is also a versatile component for making nanoscopic structures and devices The year 2003 witnessed the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNAs double ...

The double helix model of DNA may not be at the center of everything after all, with British scientists discovering a natural four-standed helix.

Each DNA molecule is actually a pair of strands wound together, forming a double helix. To make a protein from a gene, a cell must separate the strands and read their sequence.