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From: c > CC: EFTA00954855 EFTA00954856  4=Min, , <IMCEAEX- (7CURRENT- SCIENCE- GRO1 Ot I-F. XCHANGE+20ADMIN I STRATIVP 20GRO1J P+20+28FYDIBOHF23SPDLT+29_C EFTA00954857  Subject: Ifs 60 years since the discovery of the structure of DNA Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:11:19 +0000 Attachments: EPimsUpload1361793710047-60th_DNA_anniversary.html EFTA00954858  If you're having trouble viewing this message, click to view in your default browser „logo, Web of Stories :: Press Release Leb;,<b>60th ANNIVERSARY OF DNA STRUCTURE Web of Stones DISCOVERYcJb> Middlesex Mouse 34-42 Cleveland Street London WIT 418 T444 0 073230323 nebotstwies EFTA00954859  60th ANNIVERSARY OF DNA STRUCTURE DISCOVERY NOTES FOR EDITORS ABOUT WEB OF STORIES London, UK I 25th February 2013 Everyone has a story to tell. Over time many For immediate release stories become lotgoden. but now Web of Stogies offers members of the public the char.. to tell their stones for future generations to enjoy. The project is built on the belief that we It's 60 years since the discovery of the structure of DNA, and all have wonderful stogies to share. and have what better way to mark the occasion than to watch Noble lenity and Mends whose tales we would kke to hear. prize-winning biologists Crick and Watson recount their memories of this groundbreaking work in a series of Web of Stones began as an archive of rile compelling recordings? stories told by some of the great scientists. welters and attests of our time. As the number of stones grew. it became obvious that some were Sixty years ago, Francis Crick. James Crick reminisces about how it took a on related topics and that a web was slowly being created of Connected stones. Watson, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind long time for their work to gain credit 'It Franklin solved a mystery that had been went in... various stages of being a We welcome anyone to come and lark about puzzling scientists for decades when they good idea to being pretty plausible to vilually anything they like. Just like our famous determined the structure of the double being fairly probable to being very speakers. we hope you will record your stades helix in DNA which has led to countless probable to being almost certainly right, for others to enjoy. scientific advances ever since. While the but... that final stage took 25 years.' findings were officially published for the CONTACT first time on 25 April 1953 in Nature, the Crick goes on to share stories of how For more information on Web of Stones or any news was unofficially broken in a he and Watson worked together, how other video interview wen Web of Stogies please Cambridge pub, The Eagle, on 28 contact the Press Desk on their work on DNA has shaped science •44(0)20 7323 0323 or February 1953. For this discovery, Crick. for the future and his thoughts on the Watson and Wilkins were awarded the controversy around Rosalind Franklin 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or and the Nobel Prize. Should you wish to refer to Web of Stories and Medicine. out v4eo interviews please ensure that a link to Other key scientists can be viewed Web of Stones is deafly viewable on your sde. Web of Stories truly brings the scale of discussing this discovery and its this discovery to life with a host of implications. insightful recordings from Watson and Crick as well as other scientists and MI of these fascinating recordings can biologists who share their views and tell be watched as a number of short clips their stories in their own words. ranging in length between one and several minutes, with a fully searchable In a series of fascinating dips. Watson transcript MI Web of Stories videos are recounts the realization that he and Crick easy to share with friends and had determined the structure of DNA: colleagues, and may be embedded into 'About 24 hours after being told that I was personal blogs and websites. wasting my time, I changed the location of the hydrogen atoms on the paper. cardboard base pairs that rd made, and To find nut morel click lure ) did that on the last day of February of 1953. a Saturday morning. And had put together the right base pairs by 10 or 10.30 bitten Francis saw them. and they were the same size. And then he immediately realized if you Nip Bop 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 hadpredicted... So that all probably occurred within 10 minutes. That was it...That was the moment.' 02013 Web of Stogies I exwvveCODIOnes cOm For further information, please reply to EFTA00954860