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...genes were, and both were convinced that understanding the structure of DNA would help them do that. "Now, with me around the lab always wanting to talk about genes," writes Watson in The Double Helix, "Francis no longer kept his thoughts about DNA in a back recess of his brain ... No one should mind if, by spending only a few hours a week thinking about DNA, he helped me solve a smashingly important problem...
...defeat was humiliating--"the biggest mistake," Bragg would one day say, "of my scientific career"--and Crick and Watson knew it could easily happen again. Pauling surely understood that the structure of DNA was the next big challenge, and once he turned his powerful brain to the problem, he would certainly crack it. "Within a few days of my arrival," writes Watson, "we knew what to do: imitate Linus Pauling and beat him at his own game." To do so, they would need X rays of DNA, but they would have to look outside Cambridge. The Cavendish's crystallographers were...
...Crick, always restless, decided there were greater opportunities in embryology, the study of how a single fertilized egg develops into an adult organism. A decade later, he made another major change by moving to the Salk Institution in La Jolla, Calif., to explore the brain. He began by looking at dreams and soon shocked Freudians by concluding that dreams were simply the brain's nightly housecleaning to make room for new memories...
Within a quarter-century, we will have completed the reverse engineering of the human brain and will understand its principles of operation. We can then implement similar "biologically inspired" methods of information processing using far more powerful computational technology. This will combine our human strengths in pattern recognition and emotional and artistic intelligence with the speed, capacity and knowledge sharing of machines...
...history of the world," shouts Leif Salford, an unusually animated neurosurgeon at Lund University, in Sweden. Salford's not talking about his own work. He's talking about the 1.3 billion people around the world who regularly chat away on their mobile phones, "freely pressing radiological devices to their brains." Salford's own research involves much smaller samples - of mice, not men - but it is raising big questions about the safety of human mobile-phone use. In a paper that will be published in April by the U.S. journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Salford's research...