An article written for Time Magazine, but never published, could have rewritten the history of how DNA was discovered.
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Vegan wool, peanut coats and the discovery of DNA: the forgotten life of scientist William Astbury
Florence Bell’s work producing X-rays of DNA laid the foundations for one of the landmark discoveries of 20th century science.
Franklin was born a century ago, and her X-ray crystallography work crucially contributed to determining the structure of DNA.
You are probably familiar with graphics depicting the double helix structure of DNA. But have you ever seen a single DNA molecule standing straight?
It’s 65 years since the structure of DNA was first published, but the woman who made that possible remains unknown to many people.
The movie Gattaca’s warnings about using advances in genetics for eugenics proved wide of the mark. It’s time people woke up to this.
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Author and Honorary Fellow, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Reader in Genetics, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Molecular Biology, Florida State University
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Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Miami University
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Chair in Translational Cancer Genomics, Queen's University Belfast
