Word: dna
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) this week announced the discovery of a new form of DNA that may have major implications for future research in chemical genetics...
Alexander Rich, professor of biology at MIT, headed the research team that discovered a form of DNA that differs from earlier determinations of the molecule's structure...
James D. Watson, former professor of Biochemistry, and Francis Crick of Cambridge University in England, won the Nobel Prize in the early '60s for discovering that DNA exists as a "right- handed double helix," resembling a spiral staircase that turns clockwise...
...group discovered a form of DNA that spirals to the left...
...says. And Meselson is not the only of Dyson's heroes. There's Frank Thompason, the idealistic poet, who went down in action in Yugoslavia, a political hero fighting for a noble cause; there is the humble black woman who served with Dyson on a committee to decide if DNA research was to be allowed at Princeton; and lastly there's his own son, who makes canoes in British Columbia, and whom Dyson saw save two lives in a way that contrasted sorely with the rankling memory of his own inability to do the same many years...