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The word 7,730,000

7 June 2003

ONE Tom Cruise (1,020,000), plus two Britney Spears (199,000) and six David Beckhams (355,000). Or just two-and-a-bit Madonnas (3,610,000). That’s how many web hits you get for DNA in this, the golden anniversary year of the day in February 1953 when two excited young scientists told a pub crowd they had found the “secret of life”. DNA easily outclasses those other stars; clearly everyone is hoping the gold will rub off.

So how has the web been celebrating Francis Crick and Jim Watson’s big year? At the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, where…

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