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Science Friday > Archives > 2000 > June > June 2, 2000: Hour Two: A Conversation with James D. Watson In April of 1953, the journal Nature published a very short paper by two scientists, Francis Crick and James Watson. In that paper, the pair suggested a structure for the DNA molecule -- which, they pointed out, "has novel features which are of considerable biological interest." The world hasn't been the same since. In just the past few days, the Celera Corporation announced that it had sequenced 1/3 of the genes in the mouse genome. Scientists at Cambridge University reported genetically engineering a faster-growing tobacco plant. A team based at Penn State University published results that point to a gene that may stop breast cancer tumors from metastasizing. And that's all just the beginning. As the race to decode the human genome continues to drive forward, we'll talk to James D. Watson, the first president of the NIH's National Center for Human Genome Research, the co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and one of the first scientists to understand the double-helix structure of DNA--and the possibilities that lay in that knowledge.
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