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Nudes were her typical subjects, but in 1953, when painter Odile Crick was asked by her husband Francis Crick to illustrate the Nobel-winning discovery he made with James Watson--the structure of DNA--she agreed to pitch in. Her work, the double helix with two spiraling chains of DNA, became an iconic global scientific symbol...
...He’d always tell stories about how funny Watson and Crick were, all the quirky little things they’d do in the lab” Hamm said...
...African heads of state committed to reducing malaria deaths. Yesterday was also National DNA Day. Speakers at the conference emphasized how genetic analysis can be used to advance malaria research and how the two fields are increasingly being integrated. National DNA Day celebrates the date James Watson and Francis Crick published their revolutionary paper about the double-helix structure of DNA, as well as the completion of the sequencing of the human genome in 2003. Lander, the geneticist, said “the idea of getting the sequences of many malaria genomes is not nuts...
...Later, the English molecular biologist Francis Crick, a co-discoverer in the 1950s of the structure of the DNA molecule, drained a little more romance from dreaming. His and theoretical biologist Graeme Mitchison's "reverse learning" theory held that dreams rid the brain of superfluous notions, and that without this regular flushing brain overload would manifest as hallucinations and obsessions. There are echoes of this idea in the perspective of Drew Dawson, director of the University of South Australia's Centre for Sleep Research: "I tend to think of dreaming as a bit like backwashing the swimming pool filter...
...region that sits further down the information stream and that registers coherent shapes and objects that tracks the monkeys' awareness. Now this doesn't mean that this place on the underside of the brain is the TV screen of consciousness. What it means, according to a theory by Crick and his collaborator Christof Koch, is that consciousness resides only in the "higher" parts of the brain that are connected to circuits for emotion and decision making, just what one would expect from the blackboard metaphor...