Video 20: Matthew Meselson, clip 3

Matt Meselson is a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. His laboratory studies sexual reproduction and genetic recombination, and how and why they are maintained in evolution.

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16461. Video 20: Matthew Meselson, clip 2

The three models of DNA replication - semi-conservative, conservative, and dispersive - and whether bias played a role in designing/interpreting the experiment.

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16460. Video 20: Matthew Meselson, clip 1

Explaining density gradient centrifugation.

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16466. Biography 20: Matthew Stanley Meselson (1930- )

Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl invented the technique of density gradient centrifugation and used this to prove that DNA is replicated semi-conservatively.

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16467. Biography 20: Franklin William Stahl (1929-)

Franklin Stahl and Matthew Meselson invented the technique of density gradient centrifugation and used this to prove that DNA is replicated semi-conservatively.

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16454. Video 20: Frank Stahl, clip 1

Describing his first meeting with James Watson and Matthew Meselson.

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16455. Video 20: Frank Stahl, clip 2

Describing how he first met Matthew Meselson.

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16491. Biography 21: Sydney Brenner (1927-2019)

Sydney Brenner showed that mRNA was the unstable intermediate that carried the message from DNA to the ribosomes.

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16437. Biography 19: James Dewey Watson (1928- )

James Watson and Francis Crick solved the structure of DNA. Other scientists, like Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, also contributed to this discovery.

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15461. The double helix and the Nobel Prize, James Watson

James Watson talks about who he thinks should have won the Nobel Prize in 1962.

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16456. Video 20: Frank Stahl, clip 3

Recounting how the seminal "Meselson-Stahl" experiment was only performed 3 times, with one set of results discarded due to mislabelled tubes!

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