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Watson, who realised at once that it provided crucial evidence for the double helix. “But science is not supposed to be kept in bags, any more than cats,” Wilkins responded. His sombre mien contrasted sadly with the story of robust commercialisation which came later. Gosling’s view was that “Rosy would have been appalled to learn that they had taken quite so much detail of her current work and put it into their model”. On the other hand, Franklin may have been unwise to laugh dismissively when Watson and Crick showed her their first, imperfect model. For no particular reason, Gosling also opined that Franklin’s hair was “in no particular arrangement”. The human factor emerged again in comments about Pauling and his erroneous model, “No-one at Caltech had the courage to tell Pauling that it was wrong,” Watson said. “Linus was like the Pope. He wasn’t used to people saying he was wrong.” More questionable was Peter Pauling’s remark: “For Pah, DNA was just a substance like sodium chloride.” No, it was not. Neither was it uncontroversial, as Maurice Wilkins believed when he selected DNA as a research topic, after working on the Bomb during wartime. The succeeding episode, After DNA: The Story of Life, opened with the storm of controversy that accompanied the advent of recombinant DNA. There was needless hyperbole in the description of the first genetic engineers (“With their new powers, they could accelerate evolution according to their own designs and alter the destiny of life on earth”). But the programme put into true perspective both the reasonable concerns of people such as Paul Berg, which led to the Asilomar conference of 1975, and the unreasonable assertions of Alfred Velluccci, Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, whose rantings helped to eject Walter Gilbert and his work from Harvard. “They don’t even know what’s going to come out of their experimentation,” said Vellucci. “It could be anything; contamination, infections, and suddenly they Current Biology Vol 13 No 8 R296
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 13 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003