Nature. 2003 Jan 23;421(6921):406.

Discovering genes are made of DNA.

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The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York 10021, USA. mccartm@rockefeller.edu

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Maclyn McCarty is the sole surviving member of the team that made the remarkable discovery that DNA is the material of inheritance. This preceded by a decade the discovery of the structure of DNA itself. Here he shares his personal perspective of those times and the impact of the double helix.

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