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John Cairns (biochemist)

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was a single molecule that is replicated at a moving locus (the replicating fork) at which both new DNA strands are being synthesized. Subsequently, it was found that there were in fact two moving forks, traveling simultaneously in opposite directions around the chromosome.
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between 1960 and 1961, and returned there to serve as the director from 1963 to 1968. He remained a staff member at Cold Spring Harbor until 1972, when he was appointed head of the
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In his 1963 paper "The bacterial chromosome and its manner of replication as seen by autoradiography", Cairns demonstrated by
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Matters of Life and Death: Perspectives on Public Health, Molecular Biology, Cancer, and the Prospects for the Human Race
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Matters of Life and Death: Perspectives on Public Health, Molecular Biology, Cancer, and the Prospects for the Human Race
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Cairns, John; Stent, Gunther S.; Watson, James D., eds. (2007).
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2002 paper on Immortal DNA strand hypothesis (theory)
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Oral History Collection
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British molecular biologist and physician (1922–2018)
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University of Oxford
Virology
Molecular Biology
Genetics
Cancer Biology
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Virus Research Institute
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Mill Hill
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Harvard University
FRS
molecular genetics
cancer research
public health
Oxford
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Melbourne, Australia
Virus Research Institute
Entebbe
John Curtin School of Medical Research
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Mill Hill
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Harvard School of Public Health
autoradiography
DNA
bacterium
Escherichia coli

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