title: Looking backwards: a birthday card for the double helix.
abstract: This 'birthday' paper outlines very briefly the history of the discovery of the DNA double helix, the way it was received and how it was confirmed. The paper also discusses why, at that time, we foresaw so little of the rapid progress produced by the techniques of recombinant DNA. The key feature of the nucleic acids--discovered by Jim Watson--is their ability to form specific base pairs.
authors.affiliation: Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Crick
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000266:history*; D005823:Genetics / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century
chemical_list: D004247:DNA