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James Watson helped crack DNA’s code, sparking medical advances and ethical debates

November 7, 2025

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to figure how they fit together in a way that let DNA do its job as the stuff of genes.Suddenly, he…

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