"What are the properties of genetic RNA?"

Date:
1960
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PP/CRI/H/2/41
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Description

Text (holograph) of Crick and S Brenner, "What are the properties of genetic RNA?" A Note for the RNA Tie Club, dated "May 1960."

This first statement of the "messenger hypothesis" was never circulated. The complete text comprises 20 sheets.

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1960

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1 file

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A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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