On 11 Apr 2002 18:39:52 +0100, melanie_hardman at hotmail.com ("Melanie
Hardman") wrote:
>>Does anyone know the actual source organism for the DNA that Rosalind
>Franklin used to create her X-ray photographs that inspired Watson and
>Crick.
>>I have tried searching google, contacting Kings and searching PubMed with
>little luck.
>
I don't know about those particular photos, but in _The Eighth Day of
Creation_ (Expanded Edition, reprinted by Cold Spring Harbor Press,
1996) by Horace F. Judson, on p. 78 it describes Franklin's colleague
Wilkins learning to extract DNA from calf thymus.
It's definitely worth a read if you like history of biology.
NIck
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Nick Theodorakis
nicholas_theodorakis at urmc.rochester.edu
