Original sentence: He is the author of the 1978 book Cancer: Science and Society (now out of print) and the 1997 book, Matters of Life and Death: Perspectives on Public Health, Molecular Biology, Cancer, and the Prospects for the Human Race.In 1981, John Cairns received a MacArthur Foundation ("genius") Fellowship.In his 1963 paper "The bacterial chromosome and its manner of replication as seen by autoradiography", Cairns demonstrated by autoradiography that the DNA of the bacterium Escherichia coli was a single molecule that is replicated at a moving locus (the replicating fork) at which both new DNA strands are being synthesized
Edited sentence: He is the author of the 1978 book Cancer: Science and Society (now sadly out of print) and the 1997 book, Matters of Life and Death: Perspectives on Public Health, Molecular Biology, Cancer, and the Prospects for the Human Race (a collection of essays rather than an autobiography).In his 1963 paper "The bacterial chromosome and its manner of replication as seen by autoradiography", Cairns demonstrated by autoradiography that the DNA of the bacterium Escherichia coli {E.John Cairns received a MacArthur Foundation ("genius") Fellowship in 1981.coli) was a single molecule that is replicated at a moving locus (the replicating fork) at which both new DNA strands are being synthesized