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April 2003
DNA 50th anniversary: Double helix at 50
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The cover to mark the passage of 50 years since publication of the Watson and Crick double helix paper features signatures of participants at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's historic conference, The Biology of DNA, held earlier this year. Participants were asked to 'draw their conception of DNA' and sign the sketch. A gallery of some of the results is on view in this issue. The DNA theme is taken up elsewhere, including the question of why we still care about and cite 'old' science and an update on the rice genome. The 2003 Spring Books special opens with a review of Watson's DNA: The Secret of Life and concludes with 'Art after DNA'. In genomes and via Crick's slide rule, DNA is in evidence in Correspondence.
DNA from Alberts to Zinder
PETER
SHERWOOD
Nature 422, 806–807 (2003); doi:10.1038/422806a
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Who cares about the double helix?
BRUNO
J. STRASSER
Collective memory links the past to the future in science as well
as history.
Nature 422, 803–804 (2003); doi:10.1038/422803a
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A recipe for revolution?
DAVID
CYRANOSKI
Sequencing the DNA of the world's leading food crop was the easy
part. Now comes the tricky task of turning our new knowledge of the rice genome
into agricultural and economic gains. David Cyranoski reports.
Nature
422, 796–798 (2003); doi:10.1038/422796a
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Life, the movie
MAXINE
SINGER
Fifty years after revealing the structure of DNA, James Watson looks
back.
Nature 422, 809–810 (2003); doi:10.1038/422809a
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Science in culture
LYNN
GAMWELL
Nature 422, 817 (2003); doi:10.1038/422817a
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Watching an IT icon slide into history
W.
JOHN CRAM
Nature 422, 801 (2003); doi:10.1038/422801b
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