DNA pioneer Crick dies
AFP, Los Angeles
British Nobel laureate Francis Crick, who with American James Watson discovered the double-helix structure of DNA that revolutionized genetics and spawned the ubiquitous field of biotechnology, has died at 88, associates said Thursday.Crick, who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1962, passed away late Wednesday at a hospital in San Diego, California, where he had been battling colon cancer.
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