Discovering genes are made of DNA.
Maclyn McCarty is the sole surviving member of the team that made the remarkable discovery that DNA is the material of inheritance. This preceded by a decade the discovery of the structure of DNA itself. Here he shares his personal perspective of those times and the impact of the double helix.
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The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York 10021, USA. mccartm@rockefeller.edu
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