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Correspondence
Nature 414, 485 (29 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35107234
Messenger RNA: origins of a discovery
Alvin M. Weinberg1
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities, PO Box 117, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-0117, USA
In his review of James Watson's Genes, Girls and Gamow (see Nature 413, 775–776; 2001; clarification Nature 414, 487; 2001), Horace Judson attributes the discovery of messenger RNA to François Jacob, Sydney Brenner and Matthew Meselson.In fact, Jacob, Brenner and Francis Crick, at an informal meeting on Good Friday 1960, suddenly 'discovered' the unique RNA found first in 1956 by Elliot Volkin and Lazarus Astrachan.
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