50 YEARS AGO, PAIR UNLOCKED DNA CODE

The Boston Globe | February 16, 2003| | Copyright

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. - Back then, James Watson was a gawky 24- year-old with bad hair, no girlfriend, and no long-term job prospects.

It was February 1953. Watson would soon change the world. But he didn't know it then. He spent day and night in Cambridge, England, with his best friend, a prickly Englishman named Francis Crick. The two would nervously chatter about a mysterious molecule called deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. What was it all about? No one knew.

"I was obsessed with it," said Watson.

Fifty years ago this month, Watson and Crick would have their answer: the double helix. Their ...

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