Talking with biologists
May 2, 2002
The language of life is written in a four-letter alphabet - A, C, G and T - that was jointly deciphered by physicists and biologists, but since the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA almost 40 years ago, physicists and biologists have gone on to develop their own, quite distinct languages and vocabularies. However, the last few years have seen significant efforts to rekindle productive collaborations between the physics and biology communities, such as the workshop on "DNA and its interactions" organized by the Wellcome Trust - the biomedical research charity - and the Institute of Physics last month. (A report of this meeting will appear in next month's issue.)
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