DNA discoverer dies at 88

Nobel Prize-winning British scientist Francis Crick, who with James Watson discovered the spiral, ”double-helix” structure of DNA, paving the way for everything from DNA blood tests to genetically engineered tomatoes, has died. He was 88.

Crick died yesterday at University of California, San Diego, Thornton Hospital, according to Brendolyn Williams, a spokeswoman for the Salk Institute, the research body where Crick worked.