ABSTRACT

On February 28, 1953, Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and, as James Watson later recalled, announced that they had found the secret of life. Actually, they had. at morning, Watson and Crick had gured out the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). And that structure-a “double helix” that can “unzip” to make copies of itself-con rmed suspicions that DNA carries life’s hereditary information. I liken the rails of the ladder to this in that if used properly, they contain the secret to global success.