Word: francises
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But whatever their formal duties, both men were determined to figure out what 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...
OCT. Watson arrives at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, where he meets Francis Crick
DNA must be a helix after all, and on a cold train ride back to Cambridge, Watson decided that two helical sugar-phosphate backbones made more sense than three. "Thus by the time I had cycled back to college and climbed over the back gate, I had decided to build...
Venter and Francis Collins announce together that they have sequenced the human genome
I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood." James Watson's mischievous opening line of The Double Helix raised many eyebrows at the time, but even Crick wouldn't quarrel with it now. Still brash and outspoken at 86, even without the booming laugh that once echoed through...