James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should be credited highlights the challenges of scientific collaboration.
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An article written for Time Magazine, but never published, could have rewritten the history of how DNA was discovered.
Vegan wool, peanut coats and the discovery of DNA: the forgotten life of scientist William Astbury
Florence Bell’s work producing X-rays of DNA laid the foundations for one of the landmark discoveries of 20th century science.
Franklin was born a century ago, and her X-ray crystallography work crucially contributed to determining the structure of DNA.
You are probably familiar with graphics depicting the double helix structure of DNA. But have you ever seen a single DNA molecule standing straight?
It’s 65 years since the structure of DNA was first published, but the woman who made that possible remains unknown to many people.
The movie Gattaca’s warnings about using advances in genetics for eugenics proved wide of the mark. It’s time people woke up to this.
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