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...wildly beautiful as far as the eye can see. But it took the geniuses of our time to reveal how beautifully ordered life is deep down where we can't see it at all--in the molecular workshop where we become who we are. James Watson and Francis Crick did not discover the existence of DNA; they discovered its structure, which means they unveiled its power as well as its beauty. If you could uncoil a strip of DNA, it would reach 6 ft. in length, a code book written in words of four chemical letters...
...scientists have spent their lives since then trying to live up to its standards. They marveled that something so vital could be so simple and such a surprise. When they toasted their discovery in a pub one February night 50 years ago, Watson and Crick had no idea that not only biology but also the drugs we take and the machines we build, the food we eat and the choices we face when we decide to have a baby would be changed forever by what they had found...
...weeks, our bones every seven years or so. With the help of the code book, maybe scientists will one day turn our bodies into repair shops, learn how to control the genes that break and those that fix, so that our lives, like the immortal molecule Watson and Crick deconstructed 50 years...
...Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and announced that he and James Watson had "found the secret of life." At least that's what Watson remembers; Crick's memory is different. The exact words don't matter that much because the fact is, they had done it. Earlier that day, the two scientists had pieced together the correct solution to a problem that researchers around the world were racing to solve. They had built a model of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that showed by its very structure how DNA could be everything they fiercely believed...
...Today, there?s a questionable sense of modesty when Watson explains how he and Crick, a dropout physicist, managed to beat the world-renowned chemist Linus Pauling to the double helix. Watson said that it was really a simple problem: ?If it were complicated, I wouldn?t have gotten it.? He refused to retract his somewhat churlish portrait of his rival, the British crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, in his gossipy book The Double Helix, saying that she blew her chances of cracking the puzzle by refusing to cooperate with her savvy King?s College co-worker Maurice Wilkins, who ultimately shared...