Editor's Note: On Feb. 1, 1944, the Journal of Experimental Medicine published a scientific paper entitled "Studies on the chemical nature of the substance inducing transformation of pneumococcal ...

Foundations | 'Unlimited in its Implications...' Click for larger version (30K) One cold night in 1945, a Columbia University medical school student named Joshua Lederberg read Oswald Avery's 1944 ...

In 1944, Oswald Avery, Maclyn McCarty and Colin Macleod proved that DNA was the genetic material by showing that the transfer of pure DNA from virulent to avirulent strains of Pneumococcus results ...

The book starts at a rapid pace with the discovery of DNA: the story of its isolation by Friedrich Miescher from the pus-soaked bandages of wounded German soldiers in 1869, Oswald Avery's 1943 ...