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Categorization of Conservative, Semi-Conservative, and Dispersive DNA Replication Theories (1953–1956)
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Oct 31, 2019
In 1956, Gunther Stent, a scientist at the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley, California, coined the terms conservative, semi-…
DNADNA ReplicationDNA HelicasesGenesHeredity
“Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” (1953), by James Watson and Francis Crick
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Oct 31, 2019
In April 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” or “A…
LiteratureDNAComplementary DNADNA ReplicationDeoxyribonucleic Acid
Franklin William Stahl (1929– )
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Jul 20, 2017
Franklin William Stahl studied DNA replication, bacteriophages, and genetic recombination in the US during the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first…
DNA SequenceNucleotide sequenceDNA ReplicationDNA--SynthesisDNA replication--Regulation
The Hershey-Chase Experiments (1952), by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Jun 23, 2019
In 1951 and 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase conducted a series of experiments at the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Cold Spring Harbor,…
BacteriophagesDNACold Spring Harbor LaboratoryProtein PrecursorsAmino Acid Sequence
William Thomas Astbury (1898–1961)
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Jun 03, 2019
William Thomas Astbury studied the structures of fibrous materials, including fabrics, proteins, and deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, in England during…
DNAX-Ray CrystallographyX-ray crystallography--TechniqueNucleic AcidsDNA-protein interactions
Charles Robert Cantor (1942- )
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Jun 11, 2015
Charles Robert Cantor helped sequence the human genome, and he developed methods to non-invasively determine the genes in human fetuses. Cantor…
Human Genome ProjectDNAfetal developmentFetusEmbryos
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. (2013)
By: Abigail Cave
| Published: Aug 02, 2024
In the 2013 legal case Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., hereafter AMP v. Myriad, the United States Supreme Court held in…
PatentNucleotide sequenceBreast CancerBRCA1 geneBRCA2 gene
George McDonald Church (1954- )
By: Risa Aria Schnebly, Christopher Rojas
| Published: Aug 12, 2015
George McDonald Church studied DNA from living and from extinct species in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Church helped to…
DNA SequenceNucleotide sequenceGenesGenomesGenetics
Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004)
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
Francis Harry Compton Crick, who co-discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953 in Cambridge, England, also developed The Central…
DNAChromosomesNucleotide sequenceNucleic AcidsMolecular Biology
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958)
By: Lindsey O'Connell
| Published: Nov 17, 2013
Rosalind Elsie Franklin worked with X-ray crystallography at King's College London, UK, and she helped determine the helical structure of DNA in the…
PeopleDNAX-Ray CrystallographyMolecular geneticsMolecular Biology