Tag: genetic code
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Sydney Brenner biography: decoding the genetic code
On a dusty high street outside Johannesburg, in a shoe repair shop where his family slept behind the counter, a boy taught himself science from discarded books and old encyclopedias. Decades later, that boy would help crack the genetic code, imagine messenger RNA before anyone had seen it, and turn a transparent worm into one…
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Francis Crick Biography: DNA, Genes and Mind
For anyone who has ever seen the famous DNA double helix spiralling across a textbook cover, the Francis Crick biography is the story behind that image. It is the story of a late-blooming physicist who turned to biology after a world war, of a man whose booming voice filled Cambridge pubs as easily as seminar…