Today is DNA Day – 60th anniversary of Watson and Crick's discovery
Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 17:04
in Biology & Nature
The modern era of biology was launched 60 years ago today with the publication of a one-page paper in the journal Nature that described the DNA's double helix structure, a revelation of how organisms store biological information and pass it from one generation to the next.The Nobel Prize winning discovery was published by the biologists James Watson, an American, and Francis Crick, an Englishman. ...