Hard to believe, it's already been two years now since Francis Crick died. Crick, with James Watson, discovered the anti-parallel and helicoidal structure of desoxyribonucleic acid.

Ridley suggests Crick was quicker to conduct research around the principle that “DNA was an information machine, not a mechanism in itself.” While the shape of DNA allows genes to replicate, DNA itself is fundamentally a code: genes’ effects are transmitted by the sequence of its four bases, called A, T, C and G for short.

Hum ... code/machine.

Obviously, my interest in genetics and neurosciences is greater than the one I have in quantum mechanics and string theory.