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World Service,07 Apr 1999,4 mins

Working in Genetics

My Century

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Elizabeth Fisher, geneticist at Imperial College London, discusses her work attempting to find genes involved in neurological diseases and the discovery of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick in the 1950s, one of the biggest breakthroughs in biology in the last hundred years. Reading The Double Helix inspired her to become a scientist.

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