Getty ImagesIn February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an idle boast.One was James Watson, an American biologist from the Cavendish laboratory; the other was his British research partner, Francis Crick. Their discovery - of the structure and function of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA - ranks alongside those of Mendel and Darwin in its significance to modern science.The full Promethean power of their achievement would slowly emerge over decades of research by fellow...
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George Sandeman and Giulia ImbertBBC NewsAFPOther animal rights groups have been more welcoming of Pannier-Runacher's announcement, saying a European sanctuary would still be better...