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From: c > CC: EFTA01188369 EFTA01188370 , <IMCEAEX-ii*CURRENT- SCIENCE- GROI DI '-F. XCHANGE+20ADMIN I STRATIVP 20G ROIJ P+20+28FYDIBOHF23SPDLT+29_C EFTA01188371 Subject: Ifs 60 years since the discovery of the structure of DNA Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:11:19 +0000 Attachments: EPimsUpload1361793710047-60th_DNA_anniversary.html EFTA01188372 If you're having trouble viewing this message, click to view in your default browser „logo, Web of Stories :: Press Release Leb;,<b>60th ANNIVERSARY OF DNA STRUCTURE DISCOVERY4b> Web of Stones Middlesex House 34-42 Cleveland Street London WI T 418 1 0323 DWw webofslOnetaa ft oetoolstories xv.m.feeebcok.comPoeborsiar,- rr EFTA01188373 60th ANNIVERSARY OF DNA STRUCTURE DISCOVERY London, UK I 25th February 2013 For immediate release It's 60 years since the discovery of the structure of DNA, and what better way to mark the occasion than to watch Noble prize-winning biologists Crick and Watson recount their memories of this groundbreaking work in a series of compelling recordings? Sixty years ago, Francis Crick. James Watson, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin solved a mystery that had been puzzling scientists for decades when they determined the structure of the double helix in DNA which has led to countless scientific advances ever since. While the findings were officially published for the first time on 25 April 1953 in Nature, the news was unofficially broken in a Cambridge pub, The Eagle, on 28 February 1953. For this discovery, Crick. Watson and Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Web of Stories truly brings the scale of this discovery to life with a host of insightful recordings from Watson and Crick as well as other scientists and biologists who share their views and tell their stories in their own words. In a series of fascinating dips. Watson recounts the realization that he and Crick had determined the structure of DNA: 'About 24 hours after being fold that I was wasting my lime, I changed the location of the hydrogen atoms on the paper. cardboard base pairs that made, and did that on the last day of February of 1953. a Saturday morning. And had put together the right base pairs by 10 or 10.30 when Francis saw them. and they ware the same size. And then he immediately realized if you AV flop them over they could. any base could be on either chain, and you could... the chains going. and the shveture meant the chains went in opposite directions, which the space group had predicted... So that all probably occurred within 10 minutes. That was it...That was the moment.' Crick reminisces about how it took a long time for their work to gain credit 'it went in... various stages of being a good idea to being pretty plausible to being fairly probable to being very probable fo being almost certainly right, but... that final stage took 25 years.' Crick goes on to share stories of how he and Watson worked together. how their work on DNA has shaped science for the future and his thoughts on the controversy around Rosalind Franklin and the Nobel Prize. Other key scientists can be viewed discussing this discovery and its implications. MI of these fascinating recordings can be watched as a number of short clips ranging in length between one and several minutes, with a fully searchable transcript MI Web of Stories videos are easy to share with friends and colleagues, and may be embedded into personal blogs and websites. TO find nut mom clink here O2013 Web of Stories I Damil;S2 i f- plans= For further information, please reply to niuggwebofstoriec.com NOTES FOR EDITORS ABOUT WEB OF STORIES Everyone has a story to tell. Over time many stories become forgotten. but now Web of Stones otters members of the public the than. to tell their stones for future generabons to enjoy. The project is built on the belief that we all have wander/id stones to share. and have Welty and Mends whose tales we would like to hear. Web of Stones began as an archive of rile stones told by some of the great scientists. writers and attests of our time. As the number of stones grew. it became obvious that some were on related topics and that a web was slowly being created of Connected stones. We welcome anyone to come and lark about vilually anything they like. Just like our famous speakers. vie hope you will record your stones for others to enjoy CONTACT For more information on Web of Stories or any other video interview with Web of Stories please contact the Press Desk on 0323 or Should you wish to refer to Web of Stories and our ndeo interviews please ensure that a link to Web of Stones is dearly viewable on your see. EFTA01188374