DNA Scientist Francis Crick Dies at 88.

[Fausto]

SAN DIEGO - Nobel Prize-winning scientist Francis Crick, who with James Watson discovered the spiral, "double-helix" structure of DNA, paving the way for everything from DNA blood tests to genetically engineered tomatoes, has died. He was 88.

It was 1953, while working in Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, that the British-born Crick, 36 at the time, and the American-born Watson, just 24, struck upon the famous double-helix structure ? like a twisted ladder ? of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.

A half-century later, the biotechnology industry is based largely upon Crick's and Watson's discovery. So, too, are genetically engineered foods like bigger tomatoes and innovative medical technologies like gene therapy.

 

[minendo]

 

[Orsorum]

RIP

 

[eplebnista]

 

[gopunk]

rip, although i heard he was kind of mean

 

[Chronoshock]

Originally posted by: gopunk
rip, although i heard he was kind of mean

Yeah... he was supposedly a d!ckhead. Ah well RIP anyways

 

[RaiseUp]

Who the hell is he?

 

[Chronoshock]

Originally posted by: RaiseUp
Who the hell is he?

Read the freaking first post lol, he's credited with discovering the double helix structure of DNA with Watson. He technically got it from the x-ray crystallography performed by Rosalind Franklin but thats another story...

 

[TheShiz]

Originally posted by: RaiseUp
Who the hell is he?

i'm scared to ask where you received your education? christian school maybe?

 

[RaiseUp]

Wtf are you guys talking about? Screw it.

 

[Kalvin00]

 

[Platypus]

 

[biostud]

Clone him

 

[freegeeks]

RIP

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: RaiseUp
Wtf are you guys talking about? Screw it.

Can someone explain this to RU using "spinners" as a metaphor so he'll get it? :roll:

 

[Ogg]

Originally posted by: Orsorum
RIP

 

[PowerMac4Ever]

Originally posted by: RaiseUp
Who the hell is he?

He invented the concept of the Spinning 22" on the BMW.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever

Originally posted by: RaiseUp
Who the hell is he?

He invented the concept of the Spinning 22" on the BMW.

Helix.....spinner.......

See? That's not so hard.

 

[RaiseUp]

Wow, man your guys insults are so original.

 

[PowerMac4Ever]

Originally posted by: RaiseUp
Wow, man your guys insults are so original.

I should say the same for you:

Private message from RU:

trying to insult I see. Least we have a car thats worth more than your parents make combined, probably worth more than your house.

lol

 

[Leetman]

RIP.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever

Originally posted by: RaiseUp
Wow, man your guys insults are so original.

I should say the same for you:

Private message from RU:

trying to insult I see. Least we have a car thats worth more than your parents make combined, probably worth more than your house.

lol

Hehe...I love kiddies who are like "MY DAD OWNZORS L33T CARS YOU CAN'T AFFORD LOZERZ!!"

Your dad's care != your car. My dad owns a 745Li too, but I sure as hell don't go around saying it's mine.

 

[biostud]

And so a funeral thread got hi-jacked into a flame-thread. May your helices straighten and fall apart. :beer:

 

[RaiseUp]

That was an old pm, geez. All I did was ask who the guy was, and you bring a car up.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: biostud666
And so a funeral thread got hi-jacked into a flame-thread. May your helices straighten and fall apart. :beer:

hhahaha