Ortiz HC

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ABSTRACT

50 years ago James Watson and Francis Crick, described the structure of DNA. In the same issue of the British journal Nature, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, from Kind’s College, London, also published their studies on DNA. The Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962, came to Watson, Crick and Wilkins. Franklin had died of ovarian cancer some years earlier. A brief history of DNA is depicted in the manuscript.

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