People believe the darnedest things.
Articles with DNA
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Kindred spirits
“A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree,” writes Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson in his autobiography.
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Beauty bare on the spiral staircase
Tucked away among the exhibits of Boston’s Museum of Science is a ten-foot-high model of a segment of DNA.
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Not the place to find good science
“It’s the science, stupid,” said defense lawyer Barry Scheck at the Louise Woodward trial.
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Searching for a metaphor for the miraculous
Every high school biology student learns something like this: “Before a cell divides, the DNA replicates itself. A complete copy of the DNA moves to each side of the cell. Then the cell splits down the middle.”
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A worm for the ages
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em,” says Malvolio in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” quoting Maria’s letter.
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Chemistry with a cosmic spark
Why do killdeers build their nest on open ground?
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Finding mystery in God’s tinkertoy
Forty-one years ago today [in 1953], James Watson and Francis Crick published a paper in the journal Nature announcing their discovery of the structure of DNA.
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In search of the soul
Writing about genetic experimentation in the New York Times, columnist Nicholas Wade says, “The secret of life is out: There is no secret, no black box that protects the biological machinery from manipulation nor a soul undefilable in the chemist’s retort.”
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The miracle that gives life its shape
There is a certain magic moment in the spring woods near my house when the ladyslippers and starflowers bloom together.