The Google doodle includes Franklin’s face in the ... that was instrumental in allowing Watson and Crick to crack DNA’s structure. Franklin died aged 37 from ovarian cancer, four years before ...

Last month, Google's home page featured a sepia-toned drawing celebrating the birthday of British biophysicist Rosalind Franklin, an early researcher into the structure of DNA. A February doodle ...

The first crystal structure of an alternative DNA shape from the insulin gene has been revealed by a UCL-led research team. DNA is widely accepted to be formed of two strands that wind around one ...

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The first crystal structure of an alternative DNA shape from the insulin gene has been revealed by a UCL-led research team. DNA is widely accepted to be formed of two strands that wind around one ...

Her colleague Maurice Wilkins was independently pursuing DNA’s structure, and she had grown so miserable there, largely because of their rivalry, that she had found a position at another university.

Franklin did not fail to grasp the structure of DNA. She was an equal contributor to solving it. Getting Franklin’s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going ...

Google is celebrating the 93rd birthday of molecular biologist Rosalind Franklin today with a homepage doodle that pays homage to her contributions to DNA research. Franklin played a large role in ...