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Did Alois Alzheimer really 'discover' the disease? 23/06/04
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Vidyanand Nanjundiah examines the impact of Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionist and prolific writer, who died in May 2002. 04/05/04
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Archiving can be a glamorous business, discovers Chris Beckett, guardian of the Francis Crick papers. 10/11/03
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The second volume of Janet Browne's epic biography of Charles Darwin reveals a man more complex – and interesting – than is usually portrayed. 28/04/03
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David Pearson, Head of the Wellcome Library, discusses the acqusition of the Crick archive, and how they will be made freely accessible to historians, students and scientitsts. 01/03/03
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Francis Crick joined the Cavendish Laboratory in 1949, working with Max Perutz on X-ray crystallography studies of the structure of proteins. 01/03/03
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Watson and Crick's double-helical model of DNA suggested a mechanism for the replication of DNA. 01/03/03
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James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA marks the beginning of a branch of science that we now know as molecular biology. 01/03/03
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Crick predicted the existence of 'adaptors', later found to be transfer RNA. 01/03/03
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Crick, Sydney Brenner and colleagues discovered that the genetic code is a triplet code. 01/03/03
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Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 01/03/03
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In the late 1980s, biologists first began to entertain the idea that, given the funds and the technology, it would be possible to read the entire human genome, the three billion letters in the 'book of life'. 28/02/01
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The announcement of the first draft of the human genome on 26 June 2000 was big news. 28/02/01
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With the launch of the Human Genome Project, the press argued over whether the human genome would be a 'holy grail of biology' or 'a splendid piece of symbolism and a scientific disaster'. 28/02/01
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The science that would provide the basis for mapping and sequencing the human genome was developed on a smaller scale: the sequencing of the genome of the humble nematode worm. 28/02/01
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In 1993, with US entrepreneurs attempting to headhunt John Sulston and Bob Waterston, potentially undermining the Human Genome Project, the Wellcome Trust stepped in to fund a new sequencing institute, the Sanger Centre. 28/02/01
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Proposals in 1995 for a massive acceleration in sequencing of the human genome founder amid concerns about centralisation and accuracy. 28/02/01
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In 1998, the entry of Celera Genomics into the human genome sequencing arena galvanises the public effort. 28/02/01
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When Celera announced that it planned to sequence the human genome, the race between the public and private efforts was on (in the media's eyes at least). 28/02/01
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Celera's approach to human genome sequencing challenged the guiding ethos of the public Human Genome Project: free and unrestricted access to genome data. 28/02/01
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After 1998, a stunning acceleration in sequence production by the main centres in the Human Genome Project saw them go from 6 per cent to 90 per cent of the genome in under two years. This sequence, the first draft, was announced on 26 June 2000. 28/02/01
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