Is Rosalind Franklin a ghost that still haunts the history of genomic science? Alan Booth looks into her remarkable story ...

The “51” in Cure51 references Photo 51, the famous X-ray diffraction image taken by Franklin and her PhD student, Raymond Gosling, which provided key evidence for the structure of DNA.

In 2015, a 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal, killing nearly 9,000 and injuring thousands. The earthquake resulted in losses exceeding ...

Rosalind Franklin is often by-passed ... By the time she took the famous Photo 51, an image of DNA that guided Francis Crick and James Watson’s research, Franklin was already a renowned scientist. She ...

Image: Caroline Rodier The Rosalind Franklin rover is designed to look for signs of past, or even present, life on Mars. Named after the British scientist who helped discover the structure of DNA ...

When Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit rocket failed on its maiden launch from Cornwall in 2023, it brought Britain’s space aspirations crashing down to Earth. Now, Peter Kyle, the Science Secretary, ...

Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 should have gone also to Rosalind Franklin, the colleague who succeeded in making a crucial X-ray image of crystallized DNA. That photograph allowed ...

Franklin would take X-ray photos of DNA and work towards deciphering its structure and ... In 1956, Franklin was diagnosed with cancer and died two years later in London at the age of 37. Rosalind ...

Photo 51 — crisp, clear, and groundbreaking — captured by Dr. Rosalind Franklin, the crystallographer whose name is often footnoted in a story she helped write. But Franklin wasn't just a supporting ...

Imagine a world without Marie Curie’s groundbreaking research in radioactivity, Rosalind Franklin’s crucial role in the discovery of DNA, or Ada Lovelace’s visionary work in computer ...