In the winter of 1869, the young Swiss doctor, Friedrich Miescher, was attempting nothing less than to uncover the biochemical nature of life using leukocytes he isolated from the pus on surgical ...

In 1869 Friedrich Miescher found a substance in white blood cells that he called "nuclein." Cell biologists saw that it was a constituent of chromosomes and hence must play a major role in heredity ...

Crick, Watson, and Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for their work in 1962. DNA was discovered in 1869, but it took until 1943 before scientists realised that DNA was the genetic material in ...

Although James Watson and Francis Crick determined the double-helical structure of DNA, DNA itself was identified nearly 90 years earlier by Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher. While studying white ...