Phoebus Levene and the Tetranucleotide Structure of Nucleic Acids

1999/07/01 by Graeme K. Hunter · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Chemistry · #Biochemistry #Chemistry #DNA #DNA and Biological Computing #DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry #Faith #Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research #Nucleic acid #Philosophy #Stereochemistry #Theology

paper · doi:10.1179/amb.1999.46.2.73

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Abstract

Take Phobus Levine at the Rockefeller Institute. He was absolutely certain that DNA was a boring irrelevant molecule containing random sequences of those four letters, ACGT. He dismissed it, and then, in that peculiar human way, it became a matter of faith with him, deep faith. What he knew, he knew, and the molecule was insignificant.Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (1997)

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