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There was, however, a mysterious glitch. While Voyager 2 was hidden behind Saturn it developed the space-age equivalent of a crick in the neck, reducing the mobility of its cameras. But the robot had already accomplished most of its goals, and the trouble will almost certainly not prevent use of the cameras on the rest of Voyager 2's flight-past Uranus in 1986 and Neptune...
...Food and Drug Administration before they can be licensed. The application to agriculture will require a great deal of capital, to say nothing of enormous technological advances, before any plants and products can be turned out in sufficient quantities to transform the world. Says James Watson, who with Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize for unraveling the double-helix structure of DNA and ultimately making recombinant DNA possible: "Let's put it this way: I wouldn't buy gene-splicing stock for my grandmother...
...Says Boyer: "I got hooked. There was something very beautiful about it. It explained a lot of things." After earning a Ph.D. in bacteriology from the University of Pittsburgh, he did postdoctoral studies at Yale, becoming so immersed in his subject that he named his Siamese cats Watson and Crick. He also became disheartened by public events-the draining agony over the war in Viet Nam, assassinations, racial unrest. "I thought our political system was falling apart. I was ready to go somewhere else and live...
David Dressler, professor of Biochemistry, said yesterday that for 25 years, the structure proposed by Watson and Crick has served as a "focal point for the successful elucidation of numerous aspects of genetics." The MIT finding may lead to new explanations of some genetic principles, although the discovery's real biological significance must still be determined, he added...
Dressler said that even if the left-handed structure is not proven to exist in natural DNA molecules, the discovery of a DNA structure different from the Watson-Crick model may have important implications...