Rudolf Jaenisch • Feng Zhang • Fred Gage
Editors

2017

It was somewhat of a surprise to the scientific community when, in 1944, Oswald Avery definitively proved that DNA encoded the blueprint to life. Many scientists at the time thought that, with just four bases, DNA was chemically too simple to contain so much information. Nearly 75 years later, though, we are still trying to parse all the information contained in a genome.