Monday, February 28, 2005
DNA Breakthrough, Coffee Fuels Writer, and Unusual Child Rearing
On this day in 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule, a key to understanding how all organisms pass genetic information to their offspring. Watson was 23 at the time; Crick was older, but hadn't finished his PhD. They worked in a lab in Cambridge, England,...
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