The paper was finally published in 1994 in Nucleic Acids Research, a less prominent journal.

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He is using enzymes such as polymerases, nucleases and exonucleases that can also copy, cut and destroy nucleic-acid strands.

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This occurs via the interaction of the nucleic acid of the exogenous viruses and the endogenous viruses which permanently occupy mammalian genomes.

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For molecular diagnostic tests Beckman Coulter has developed a nucleic-acid- sample detection instrument that separates fluorescent-dye-labeled DNA fragments for pattern recognition or further identification.

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Crick, along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, was given the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

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This one gene is the longest of the 25, 000 that make up the human genome, and it consists of 2.2 million "letters" (A, T, G and C for four different nucleic acids), which spell out the recipe for making the muscle protein.

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