Scientists at Work: Craig Mello on the Mysteries of Genetic Code

Published: Sept. 14, 2018, 12:34 p.m.

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Stat: Four. That\\u2019s how many letters in the DNA alphabet make up every living thing.

Story: How does genetic information transmit across generations? While trying to find out, scientists Craig Mello and Andrew Fire quite by accident made a discovery in 1998 that would earn them a Nobel Prize\\u2014and pave the way for the first drug to take on harmful genes. Pew\\u2019s Dan LeDuc talks with Mello about science\\u2019s surprises.

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