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GaryF's avatar

Very good interview - thanks - I was around the Salk in 76-77, but doing basic molecular biology, so never directly crossed paths with Crick.... Koch's work has been quite interesting as well - been following this since at least the 1994 book.... (which I believe is still in print).

GaryF's avatar

Also luckily got to play with neural networks around UCSD in the 80s... So all of this hits home more than a bit...

GaryF's avatar

Note that the "transcript" doesn't work - "no transcript"

Bernard Cleyet's avatar

Curious how when you know it becomes obvious. In my ignorance does surely, dominance and recessive and Mendelian ratios predict double?

Matthew Cobb's avatar

That's to do with there being a pair of chromosomes, rather than each chromosome being made up of a double helix. There was no reason to predict two strands - everyone who worked on the problem of DNA structure toyed at one point or another with 3 or 4.

Bernard Cleyet's avatar

Found a cc version. Yes, Pauling was close. Perhaps if he hadn't necessarily spent so much time with attorney(s) defending himself from anti-communist attackers? At a dinner we shared, he said that he won enough cases to pay for the ones he lost.

Bernard Cleyet's avatar

No cc. so no know.