Early Crick DNA sketch online
p2pnet.net OT News:- Papers of DNA pioneer and Nobel Laureate Francis Crick are now in the National Library of Medicine’s Profiles in Science Web Site – where you can also see a sketch he made while he was developing his ideas on deoxyribonucleic acid, better known as DNA.
It’s a collaboration between the National Library of Medicine and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine in London.
“Major current advances in science and biotechnology, such as genetic engineering, the mapping of the human genome, and genetic fingerprinting, all have their origins in Crick’s inspired work,” said Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, director of the National Library of Medicine.
“The double helix has not only reshaped biology, it has become a cultural icon, represented in sculpture, visual art, jewelry, and toys.”
During a research career spanning more than 50 years Crick, a theoretical biologist and biophysicist, also made fundamental contributions to structural studies of important biological molecules through X-ray analysis; to our understanding of protein synthesis; to the deciphering of the genetic code by which hereditary information is stored and transcribed in the cell; and to our conception of the human brain.
The online exhibition features correspondence, lecture notes, draft and published articles, laboratory notebooks, and photographs from the Francis Crick collection at the Wellcome Library. Visitors to the site can view, for example, an early photo of Watson and Crick as research students at the Cavendish Laboratory, drafts of articles on the structure of DNA, and Crick’s unpublished note predicting the existence of transfer ribonucleic acid.
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