This is a classic article from Â鶹´«Ã½’s archive, republished as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations
WE ARE privileged to witness a major breakthrough in biology. The reading of the first words of the genetic code was an event for which 1961 will always be remembered. Now, in the current issue of Nature, Dr Francis Crick and his colleagues at the Medical Research Council’s Unit for Molecular Biology, Cambridge, describe the general nature of the genetic code, which will serve as a basis for its complete elucidation. In a year or two the accomplishment will have lost its…
