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Double Helix - 50 years of DNA

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Audience/Grade: College Freshman - Continuing Education
Discipline(s): Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering
History of Science and Technology
Life Sciences
Learning Resource Type: Community - General
Media Type:

 WWW
Author(s): Nature
Description: Nature's website to commemorate the April 25, 1953 publication on the structure of DNA. The site has a hall of fame, gallery, features, reviews, images and related articles. One can also download the actual paper (pdf) for free. In April 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick wrote these words as part of the opening paragraph of a Letter to Nature. On the 50th anniversary celebrations of the publication of the structure of DNA, Nature presents this web focus, containing news, features and web specials celebrating the historical, scientific and cultural impacts of the discovery of the double helix.
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Keywords: DNA, double helix, James Watson, Francis Crick
   
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Use of Resource: Comprehensive site on this key publication. I'm glad to see the credit they give to Rosalind Franklin, whose photographs of DNA greatly contributed to the understanding of the structure of DNA, but were not acknowledged by Crick and Watson. The article is titled: The double helix and the 'wronged heroine'.
Difficulty: Medium
Interactivity Level: Medium

   
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Publication Date: 2002
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://www.nature.com/nature/dna50/
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
Collection: NEEDS NEEDS