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DNA50 COMMEMORATIVE WEB SITES

*Celebrating Life
Official UK Anniversary Web site [site no longer exists]
http://www.dna50.org.uk

*Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Official US Anniversary Web site [site no longer exists]
http://www.dna50.org

*Nature special DNA50 Web site
http://www.nature.com/nature/dna50

*Nature special DNA50 issue contents
http://www.nature.com/nature/insights/6921.html

*MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology DNA 50 Web site
http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/dna2003/index.html

*British Council DNA 50 Web portal
http://DNA50.britishcouncil.org/

*BBC News DNA 50 site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2003/
dna_at_50/default.stm

*New Scientist DNA50 pages [special pages no longer exist]
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/dna/

*DNA: The King's story
King's College, London
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives//dna/

 

EDUCATION

*DNA interactive
Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
http://www.dnai.org

*Royal Institution of Great Britain
Science Inside Out Web site
http://insideout.rigb.org/insideout/dna/index.html

*BBCi Gene stories [site deleted as it is out of date]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/genes/

*BBC Bitesize GCSE Revision
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/biology/
variationandinheritance/index.shtml

*Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Schools' Web pages with DNA structure tutorial
http://www.abpischools.org.uk

*The Human Genome Project Education Kit
'Exploring our molecular selves'
http://www.genome.gov/Pages/EducationKit/

*Window on Life [site no longer exists]
Department of Trade and Industry | Department of Health
CD-ROMs available from DTI publications office:
http://www.dti.gov.uk/publications/

*Interactive DNA tutorial
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/DNA/

 

ARCHIVES

*Watson and Crick's letter to Nature
http://www.nature.com/genomics/human/watson-crick

*The Crick Papers
The Wellcome Trust
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/genome/geneticsandsociety/
hg13f012.html

*The Watson Archives
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

http://library.cshl.edu/watsoncollection/index.html

*Anne Sayre collection of Rosalind Franklin materials
American Society for Microbiology
http://www.asm.org/Membership/index.asp?bid=16414

*Linus Pauling and the race for DNA
Oregon State University
http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/
index.html

*Horace Freeland Judson collection
http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/j/judson.htm

*The Nobel e-Museum
Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, 1962
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1962/index.html

 

RADIO BROADCASTS

*A twist to life
BBC Radio 4 (UK)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/atwisttolife.shtml

*The DNA files
National Public Radio (USA)
http://www.dnafiles.org

*The secret of Photo 51
Public Broadcasting Service (USA)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/photo51/

 

GRAPHICS & ART

*The left-handed DNA hall of fame
http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/LeftHanded.DNA.html

*DNA graphics created with POVCHEM
http://www.chemicalgraphics.com/paul/DNA.html

*Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Jena: Image Library
http://www.imb-jena.de/IMAGE.html

*Protein Data Bank Molecule of the Month - DNA
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=education_discussion/
molecule_of_the_month/pdb23_1.html

*DNA animations
Drew Berry - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehi-tv/dna/index.html

*'Imagine' photographic competition
The Wellcome Trust
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/imagine/

*DNA jewelry [sic]
http://www.fresno.k12.ca.us/schools/S090/_atkinsgatebio/
beadproject/tpage.html

 

EXHIBITIONS

*Seeking the secret of life: The DNA story in New York
New York Public Library
http://library.cshl.edu/DNAinNY/

*Four plus - Writing DNA gallery
The Wellcome Trust
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/fourplus/index1.html

*DNA Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/coldspring/index.html

*Centre for Life, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
http://www.centreforlife.co.uk/

*Representations of the double helix
Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge
(Exhibition now closed, but guidebook still available)
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/

 

ROSALIND FRANKLIN | 1920-1958

*'Light on a dark lady'
Anne Piper, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 1998
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/%7Ecwp/articles/franklin/
piper.html

*Rosalind Franklin
'Contributions of 20th century women to physics'
University of California

http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/Phase2/
Franklin,_Rosalind@841234567.html

 

FRANCIS CRICK | 1916-2004

*BBC: Tributes pour in for DNA pioneer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3937941.stm

*The Scientist: Francis Crick dies
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040729/05

*The Salk Institute: Celebrating Francis Crick
http://www.salk.edu/news/fc.php

*The Times: Obituary
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1195580,00.html

*The Guardian: Obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/
0,2763,1272473,00.html

 

MAURICE WILKINS | 1916-2004

* BBC: Science mourns DNA pioneer Wilkins
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3720060.stm

*The Scientist: Maurice Wilkins dies
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20041006/01/

*King's College London: Obituary
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/phpnews/wmview.php?ArtID=688

*The Times: Obituary
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1297676,00.html

*The Guardian: Obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1321264,00.html

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