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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. Re:I Was Thinking... by occamboy · · Score: 0, Troll

    These are nice and useful things, yes, but not particularly relevant to the average person. They do not have strong effects on average human lifespan or quality of life.

    As far as I can see, we've spent zillions and zillions on DNA research, without a really big bang for the buck.