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Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist visits CSH Asia DNA Learning Center


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Dr. James D. Watson, a Nobel Prize-winning American biophysicist and researcher credited with co-discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, visited Cold Spring Harbor (CSH) Asia DNA Learning Center in SIP on Oct 17, when he learned about the center's educational programs and outcomes and offered his advice on its future development.

Watson was awarded a share of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for working with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins to discover the DNA structure. Besides, he was the first director of the Human Genome Project, the international research effort to determine the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up human DNA, and to identify and map all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint.

As former director and president and current Chancellor Emeritus of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), which founded the center in collaboration with SIP Administrative Committee for the purpose of popularizing life science, Watson has been paying high attention to the center's development, hoping it can help more Chinese people gain a better understanding of DNA.


October 17, 2018