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closeEchoing Watson and Crick
Posted by conrad_halling on 19 Mar 2011 at 23:52 GMT
t has not escaped our notice that
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0018011#article1.body1.sec2.sec4.p4
It has not escaped my notice that the first sentence deliberately echoes Watson and Crick’s famous sentence in their 1953 paper describing the structure of DNA:
“It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.”
RE: Echoing Watson and Crick
jeisen replied to conrad_halling on 20 Mar 2011 at 00:04 GMT
Yes, that was a little homage to them. A bit over the top since we do not know if this is from the fourth domain or even from any type of cellular organism. And Watson and Crick really did know that the pairing was important for replication. But we thought we would have a little fun with the reference. Glad someone noticed.
RE: Echoing Watson and Crick
kumarms replied to conrad_halling on 20 Apr 2011 at 22:14 GMT
Funnily enough, "It has not escaped my notice..." reminded me of: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136... rather than http://dx.doi.org/10.1038...
RE: RE: Echoing Watson and Crick
MattJHodgkinson replied to kumarms on 21 Apr 2011 at 11:41 GMT
The first doi link was mangled by a comma. You can read the paper Senthil was referring to, Anthony David "Write a classic paper" BMJ 1990 300(6716): 30–31, on PubMed Central: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g....