Maclyn McCarty, physician and microbiologist, died of congestive heart failure in New York City on 2 January. He was the last survivor of the three-man team that demonstrated that genes are made of ...

Maclyn McCarty, the last surviving member of the trio of researchers who defied conventional wisdom by proving that our genetic blueprint is encoded in deoxyribonucleic acid -- DNA -- has died. He was ...

Many cite Watson and Crick's 1953 double helix paper as the beginning of modern genetics, but it can be argued that the pivotal discovery came nine years earlier. In 1944, Oswald Avery, Maclyn McCarty ...

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