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On February 28, 1953, Francis Crick, a researcher at Cambridge, walked into this popular campus watering hole. His announcement: Crick and James Watson had "discovered the secret of life."

Namely, the two had decoded the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. Sixty years later, that discovery is still having massive ramifications.

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