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2 days ago · Francis Crick (born June 8, 1916, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England—died July 28, 2004, San Diego, California, U.S.) was a British biophysicist, who, with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, received the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their determination of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the ...
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Jul 9, 2024 · The Francis Crick Institute has today announced the appointment of Professor Edith Heard as its new Director and Chief Executive. Professor Heard, who has led the European Molecular Biology Laboratory since 2019, is expected to take up the post in summer 2025.
3 days ago · In 1979, Francis Crick suggested that controlling all cells of one type in the brain, while leaving the others more or less unaltered, is a real challenge for neuroscience. Crick speculated that a technology using light might be useful to control neuronal activity with temporal and spatial precision but at the time there was no technique to ...
5 days ago · Dr. Crick coined the term "Central Dogma of Molecular Biology," which is that "DNA makes RNA makes proteins," a surprisingly simple concept with huge scientific significance. After winning the Nobel Prize in 1962 for their work, Crick moved on to study RNA.
Jul 16, 2024 · Vinuesa’s day job is an assistant research director at the Francis Crick Institute in London, where she leads a laboratory that unpicks the biology and genetics of autoimmune diseases. She and...
1 day ago · In 1962, four years after Franklin’s death, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the famous double helix. Wilkins, a colleague of Franklin, gave Watson and Crick several images that she produced before she published them. In his book years later, Watson actively downplayed Franklin’s role.
1 day ago · These included Anne Sayre, Francis Crick, his wife Odile, with whom Franklin had formed a strong friendship, and finally with the Roland and Nina Franklin family where Rosalind's nieces and nephews bolstered her spirits.
