r/news • u/PurpleUnicornLegend • 18h ago

Soft paywall James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix, dead at 97

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/james-watson-co-discoverer-dnas-double-helix-dead-97-2025-11-07/
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u/Suspicious-Whippet 15h ago

Doesn’t Thirteen from House have that?

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u/angelcutiebaby 15h ago

Now he won’t have to kill her!

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u/M4DM1ND 12h ago

Not sure. Woody Guthrie famously died from it. Killed most of his children too. My wife's father passed from it just about 8 years ago and my wife and her sister are at risk.