(FILES) Nobel Prize laureate James D. Watson speaks at a press conference to announce that a six-country consortium has successfully drawn up a complete map of the human genome, completing one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever and offering a major opportunity for medical advances, on 14 April 2003 at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. James Watson -- the Nobel laureate co-credited with the pivotal discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, but whose career was later tainted by his repeated racist remarks -- has died, his former lab said on November 7, 2025. He was 97. (Photo by Robyn BECK / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)