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60th ANNIVERSARY OF DNA STRUCTURE NOTES FOR EDITORS
ABOUT WEB OF STORIES
DISCOVERY Everyone has a story to tell. Over time many stories
London. UK l 25th February 2013 become forgotten. but now Web of Stories otters
members of the pubic the chance to tel Mee stories
For immediate release for future generations to enpy. The ()stied is built on
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and have family and friends ‘vhose tales we would like
It's 60 years since the discovery of the structure of DNA, to hear.
and what better way to mark the occasion than to watch Web of Stories began as an archive of Ida stones told
Noble prize-winning biologists Crick and Watson recount by some of the great scientists. wmers and artists of
our time. M the number of stones grew. n became
their memories of this groundbreaking work in a series of obvious that some here on related topics and that a
compelling recordings? web was Manly being created of connected stories.
We welcome anyone to come and talk about visually
anythng they site. Just like our famous speakers. we
Sixty years ago, Francis Crick, James Crick reminisces about how it took a hope you wd record your stories for others to espy.
Watson, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind long time for their work to gain credit:
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Franklin solved a mystery that had been 'It went in... various stages of being a
For more information on Web of Stones or any other
puzzling scientists for decades when good idea to being pretty plausible to video interview with web of Stones please contact the
they determined the structure of the being fairly probable to being very Press Desk on
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countless scientific advances ever since. right, but.. that final stage took 25
While the findings were officially years.' Should you wish to refer to Web of Stories and our
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published for the first time on 25 April Stories is death/ viewable on your site.
1953 in Nature, the news was unofficially Crick goes on to share stories of how
broken in a Cambridge pub, The Eagle, he and Watson worked together, how
on 28 February 1953. For this discovery, their work on DNA has shaped science
Crick, Watson and Wilkins were awarded for the future and his thoughts on the
the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or controversy around Rosalind Franklin
Medicine. and the Nobel Prize.
Web of Stories truly brings the scale of Other key scientists can be viewed
this discovery to life with a host of discussing this discovery and its
insightful recordings from Watson and implications.
Crick as well as other scientists and
biologists who share their views and tell All of these fascinating recordings can
their stories in their own words. be watched as a number of short clips
ranging in length between one and
In a series of fascinating clips, Watson several minutes, with a fully
recounts the realization that he and Crick searchable transcript. All Web of
had determined the structure of DNA: Stories videos are easy to share with
'About 24 hours after being told that friends and colleagues, and may be
was wasting my time, l changed the embedded into personal blogs and
location of the hydrogen atoms on the websites.
paper, cardboard base pairs that.
made, and did that on the last day of
February of 1953, a Saturday morning. To find out more. click here )
And had put together the right base pairs
by 10 or 10.30 when Francis saw them.
and they were the same size. And then
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he immediately realized if you flip Rap
them over they could, any base could be
on either chain, and you could... the
chains going, and the structure meant
the chains went in opposite directions,
which the space group had predicted...
So that all probably occurred within 10
minutes. That was it...That was the
moment.'
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