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In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick unveiled the double helix structure of DNA. The discovery was a profound moment in the history of science, but solving the structure of the genetic material did not reveal what the human genome sequence actually was, or what it says about who we are.... read more
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IN THE MARCH 7, 1986, ISSUE of Science magazine, the president of the Salk Institute, the Italian Nobel Laureate Renato Dulbecco, advocated the launch of a mammoth biology project to sequence the complete genome of an organism so as to understand the genetic changes that lead to cancer.
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- Kevin Davies (Author)
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