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From: c > CC: EFTA00954855 EFTA00954856 4=Min, , <IMCEAEX- (7CURRENT- SCIENCE- GRO1 Ot I-F. XCHANGE+20ADMIN I STRATIVP 20GRO1J P+20+28FYDIBOHF23SPDLT+29_C EFTA00954857 Subject: Ifs 60 years since the discovery of the structure of DNA Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:11:19 +0000 Attachments: EPimsUpload1361793710047-60th_DNA_anniversary.html EFTA00954858 If you're having trouble viewing this message, click to view in your default browser „logo, Web of Stories :: Press Release Leb;,<b>60th ANNIVERSARY OF DNA STRUCTURE DISCOVERYcJb> Web of Stones Middlesex Mouse 34-42 Cleveland Street London WIT 418 T444 0 073230323 nebotstwies EFTA00954859 60th ANNIVERSARY OF DNA STRUCTURE DISCOVERY London, UK I 25th February 2013 For immediate release It's 60 years since the discovery of the structure of DNA, and what better way to mark the occasion than to watch Noble prize-winning biologists Crick and Watson recount their memories of this groundbreaking work in a series of compelling recordings? Sixty years ago, Francis Crick. James Watson, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin solved a mystery that had been puzzling scientists for decades when they determined the structure of the double helix in DNA which has led to countless scientific advances ever since. While the findings were officially published for the first time on 25 April 1953 in Nature, the news was unofficially broken in a Cambridge pub, The Eagle, on 28 February 1953. For this discovery, Crick. Watson and Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Web of Stories truly brings the scale of this discovery to life with a host of insightful recordings from Watson and Crick as well as other scientists and biologists who share their views and tell their stories in their own words. In a series of fascinating dips. Watson recounts the realization that he and Crick had determined the structure of DNA: 'About 24 hours after being told that I was wasting my time, I changed the location of the hydrogen atoms on the paper. cardboard base pairs that rd made, and did that on the last day of February of 1953. a Saturday morning. And had put together the right base pairs by 10 or 10.30 bitten Francis saw them. and they were the same size. And then he immediately realized if you Nip Bop them over they could. any base could be on either chain, and you could... the chains going. and the structure meant the chains went in opposite directions, which the space group had predicted... So that all probably occurred within 10 minutes. That was it...That was the moment.' Crick reminisces about how it took a long time for their work to gain credit 'It went in... various stages of being a good idea to being pretty plausible to being fairly probable to being very probable to being almost certainly right, but... that final stage took 25 years.' Crick goes on to share stories of how he and Watson worked together, how their work on DNA has shaped science for the future and his thoughts on the controversy around Rosalind Franklin and the Nobel Prize. Other key scientists can be viewed discussing this discovery and its implications. MI of these fascinating recordings can be watched as a number of short clips ranging in length between one and several minutes, with a fully searchable transcript MI Web of Stories videos are easy to share with friends and colleagues, and may be embedded into personal blogs and websites. To find nut morel click lure ) 02013 Web of Stogies I exwvveCODIOnes cOm For further information, please reply to NOTES FOR EDITORS ABOUT WEB OF STORIES Everyone has a story to tell. Over time many stories become lotgoden. but now Web of Stogies offers members of the public the char.. to tell their stones for future generations to enjoy. The project is built on the belief that we all have wonderful stogies to share. and have lenity and Mends whose tales we would kke to hear. Web of Stones began as an archive of rile stories told by some of the great scientists. welters and attests of our time. As the number of stones grew. it became obvious that some were on related topics and that a web was slowly being created of Connected stones. We welcome anyone to come and lark about vilually anything they like. Just like our famous speakers. we hope you will record your stades for others to enjoy. CONTACT For more information on Web of Stones or any other video interview wen Web of Stogies please contact the Press Desk on •44(0)20 7323 0323 or Should you wish to refer to Web of Stories and out v4eo interviews please ensure that a link to Web of Stones is deafly viewable on your sde. EFTA00954860