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Nature 422, 803-804 (24 April 2003) | doi:10.1038/422803a

Who cares about the double helix?

Bruno J. Strasser1

  1. Bruno J. Strasser is at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Health (IURHMS), University of Geneva, CMU, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
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Collective memory links the past to the future in science as well as history.

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