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Knowable Magazine<p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/NationalDNADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalDNADay</span></a> 🧬 As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.</p><p><a href="https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2023/how-dna-is-copied" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">knowablemagazine.org/content/a</span><span class="invisible">rticle/living-world/2023/how-dna-is-copied</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/KnowableMagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowableMagazine</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ScienceMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceMastodon</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>April 25 is <a href="https://spore.social/tags/NationalDNADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalDNADay</span></a> so I’m sharing my portrait of Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> &amp; x-ray <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crystallographer</span></a> whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNA</span></a>, made important contributions to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carbon</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/virus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virus</span></a> research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠<br>⁠<br> There’s a joke amongst scientists that goes, “What did Watson &amp; Crick discover?”<br>“Rosalind Franklin’s notes” 🧵<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a>⁠</p>