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Before Watson and Crick basked in Nobel glory, before The Double Helix mythologized their genius, there was the photo. Photo ...
John Desmond Bernal was renowned for his contributions to x-ray crystallography and molecular biology and his work on the tobacco mosaic virus ... scientists including Dorothy Hodgkin and Rosalind ...
Moving with urgency to avoid prying eyes, she makes her way to a hidden location, where the air is thick with the earthy scent of raw, unprocessed tobacco leaves waiting to be turned into the ...
Cucumber mosaic virus is a particularly devastating virus for crops. About 90 species of aphids transmit the virus, which affects more than 1,200 plant species. These include numerous agricultural ...
“I thought, ‘What can I do for the next 20 or 30 years?’” He found an answer in SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, that was rapidly spreading around the worl ...
The UK's black market in tobacco is booming leaving a £2bn hole in government finances as tax revenue has plummeted whilst the number of UK smokers has virtually stayed the same. New figures ...