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DNA, Fifty Years To the Day

Posted by Hemos on from the changing-the-world dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today being the fiftieth anniversary (April 2, 1953) of the Watson-Crick double-helical, DNA discovery [to quote, 'We wish to put forward a radically different structure...'], there is an interesting tally of completed gene sequences here, and ones still being worked, including the Ames strain of the anthrax bacteria. It also appears that the only lifeforms not using DNA for code storage are a few viruses like the common cold."

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  1. As always, by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Everyone forgets Rosalind Franklin. She was the first person to actually physically see the molecule. Watson and Crick would have been nowhere without her.

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  2. Don't forget Rosalind Franklin... by alwayslurking · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ..robbed of her credit and too dead to fight the point: more details here

    Posthumously slagging off the person who gifted him a Nobel about her dress sense, what a wanker!

  3. It's a pitty... by jade42 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    that Rosalind Franklin rarely gets any acclaim for her work. Watson and Crick built the model of DNA on here shoulders.

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