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Left Handed DNA
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- Tom Schneider
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version = 2.01 of leftyear1989.txt 2009 Sep 29
(Thanks to Linda Angeloff Sapienza, LASplumas@aol.com, for pointing this one out!)Hi there! Yes, I am a Newsweek reader. I am also an artist responsible for perhaps one of the first left-handed boo-boos.
My husband and his old advisor (Doolittle and Sapienza) wrote a piece on "Selfish DNA" that was accepted by Nature. Their paper and another by Crick and Orgel became the magazine's cover topic. Lucky me! I got to draw for Nature!
No one noticed that my design was left-handed until the journal was in press. I will admit that the scientists thought it was pretty funny (well, what could they do at that point?).
In the US the background color was an ugly light orange, but the British version was a vivid red.
I'm starting to feel like a real part of history here...uh, infamous too.
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Thanks for a great site!
For the love of enzymes: the odyssey of a biochemist Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1989.In the section on "Astonishing Machines of Replication" on page 227, figure 7-14 there is a figleaf covering the point of DNA replication, all of the strands coming out of it are left handed.
For your first visit to the Left Handed Hall of Fame page I suggest that you follow the story over all of the years. After that you can look at each year individually from the table below. Note: just because a year has gone by does not mean we haven't found more examples for that year!
Year | Number of Left Handed DNAs |
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1964 | 1 |
... | - |
~1980 | 2 |
1978 | 1 |
1982 | 1 |
1983 | 2 |
... | - |
1989 | 3 |
1990 | 16 (5 from the Tessman letter) |
1991 | 6 |
1992 | 5 |
1993 | 6 |
1994 | 4 |
1995 | 9 |
1996 | 31 |
1997 | 37 |
1998 | 37 |
1999 | 77 |
2000 | 97 |
2001 | 105 |
2002 | 57 |
2003 | 55 |
2004 | 55 |
2005 | 44 (minimizing images) |
2006 | 17 (minimizing images) |
2007 | 26 (no images, sorry) |
2008 | 16 (no images, sorry) |
2009 | 23 (no images, sorry) |
2010 | 26 (no images, sorry) |
2011 | 11 (only 2 images, sorry) |
2012 | 11 (only rare images, sorry) |
2013 | 12 (only rare images, sorry) |
2014 | 12 (only rare images, sorry) |
2015 | 3 (images under Fair Use copyright policy) |
2016 | 2 (images under Fair Use copyright policy) |
2017 | 5 (images under Fair Use copyright policy) |
2018 | 7 (images under Fair Use copyright policy) |
2019 | 15 (images under Fair Use copyright policy) |
2020 | 13 (images under Fair Use copyright policy) |
2021 | 7 (images under Fair Use copyright policy) |
2022 | 10 (images under Fair Use copyright policy) |
2023 | 1 (images under Fair Use copyright policy) |
All | 868 |
updated: 2024Aug15_21:49:45