Deciphering Nature's Alphabet - 2. Manipulating DNA
Channel: National Human Genome Research Institute
Date: 2014-04-18

This film describes the early methods for manipulating DNA, once the basics of its structure and function were worked out, including isolating the first bacterial gene, the development of a way to map DNA with RFLPs and a way to determine the sequence of the nucleotides in the DNA double helix. Key interviews: Jonathan Beckwith, Walter Gilbert and David Botstein. 

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, State of the Art, Inc. (SOTA) developed this film for the National Human Genome Research Institute.  The film was screened as interstitial material, bracketed by lectures from key scientists at the Scientific Symposium on April 14-15, 2003.

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