 Not Just Genes: Moving Beyond Nature vs. Nurture
By NATALIE ANGIER
In the view of some biologists, DNA often has been accorded far greater powers than it possesses.
 Watson and Crick, Both Aligned and Apart, Reinvented Biology
By NICHOLAS WADE
The relationship between Francis Crick and James D. Watson is an enduring one, but it has not been seamless.
• Watson and Crick (No, Betty and Odile)
 50 Years Later, Rosalind Franklin's X-Ray Fuels Debate
By DENISE GRADY
For some, over the years, Dr. Rosalind Franklin has come to symbolize the plight of women in science, as men close ranks against them.
• Here's an X-Ray. Spot the Double Helix.
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
 For the History of Science, the First Draft Is Often Late
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Just exactly when the readers of this newspaper first heard about the double helix is a mystery, and there is a lesson in that.
• Clue to Chemistry of Heredity Is Found (June 13, 1953)
How the Arms of the Helixes Are Poised to Serve
Deciding When Science Has Gone Astray
Personal Health: Genes May Draw Your Road Map, but You Still Chart Your Course
DNA Twists to the Right. What if It Didn't?
Genetic Revolution: How Much, How Fast?
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 Voices on DNA
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Researchers and others tell how DNA's discovery, and the decades of genetic research that followed, affected their work and lives.
 Twist and Shout! The Double Helix Replicates Itself in Popular Culture
By AMY HARMON
With its extraordinary symmetry and blend of form and function, the double helix has supplanted the bomb-tainted atom as the standard symbol of science.
ESSAY
 With Sheet Metal Cutouts, the Tree of Life Emerged
By GEORGE JOHNSON
The way Watson and Crick deduced the molecule's beautifully intertwined structure is one of the great stories of science.
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