Craig Venter, the brash gene-mapper, and James Watson, who discovered DNA's structure, have gotten to look straight at their entire DNA code.
In Myriad's case, it's because the isolated DNA has a "markedly different chemical structure" from DNA within the body.
But DNA and brain structure are only the beginning of our understanding of biology.
DNA's structure had something to do with the exact timing of the announcement.
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The story of the discovery of the structure of DNA is fascinating.
Dr Watson, co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the double-helical structure of DNA, was responsible for suggesting the human-genome project in the first place.
Before the structure of DNA was unscrambled no-one had a clear idea how genetic replication - one of the cornerstones of life - worked.
The finish coincided with the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA by scientists at Cambridge University and Kings College London.
Ever since Watson and Crick first elucidated the structure of DNA in 1953, medical science has made enormous strides in understanding the basic biological mechanisms of disease.
Here, we ask Nobel laureate James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and one of the first people to have his genome sequenced, to pick his favorite gene.
Some revolutionaries were slighted by the scientific establishments of their time--like Rosalind Franklin's exclusion from sharing in the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA. Described by her peers as a "genius, " she exposed herself to massive amounts of radiation to try to get the best possible X-ray photograph of a strand of DNA, dying of cancer at 37.
Professor Crick won the prize in 1962 for his discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule, making it possible to decode how living beings function.
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Watson and Francis Crick's description of DNA's double-helix structure, and in computing, with Jack Kilby's and Bob Noyce's independent inventions of the integrated circuit.
Based on morphological differences in the skull and bone structure, coupled with DNA analysis, the authors estimate that the Kha-Nyou diverged from other rodents millions of years ago.
The team, led by Giulia Biffi, a researcher in Balasubramaninan's lab, produced antibody proteins that were designed specifically to track down and bind to regions of human DNA that were rich in the quadruplex structure.
Antisense drugs are named after one of DNA's two strands in its double-helix structure, which are known as sense and antisense.
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