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Coils, spirals and helices before the days of DNA. This is an account of the first meetings of geneticists and crystallographers addressed to the nature of chromosome and gene.
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WADDINGTON, C. Some European Contributions to the Prehistory of Molecular Biology. Nature 221, 318–321 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/221318a0
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