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George Beadle Biography: The Farmer Who Rewired Genetics

Any honest George Beadle biography has to begin on a patch of Nebraska dirt. In the early 20th century, on a modest farm near the small town of Wahoo, a…

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Rosalind Franklin biography: the woman who saw DNA in X-rays

The Rosalind Franklin biography is often told as a story of a brilliant woman cheated of her place in history: the scientist whose X-ray photograph unlocked the double helix, while others walked…