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    5 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT DNA

    Jul 05, 2023 2 minutes

    LSD trip helped Crick visualise the shape of DNA

    1 In the academic circles of Cambridge in the 1950s, it was not unusual to experiment with psychedelic drugs. Scientists happily took small doses of LSD.

    Francis Crick – one of the Nobel laureates for the discovery of the structure of DNA – openly said that he occasionally took the drug as a kind of “thinking tool”.

    According to one account, Crick

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