How we learned what genes are made of

This is the first of three pieces from Works in Progress Issue 24 that will go out ahead of the magazine arriving with subscribers – other articles will come out after the magazine arrives. Subscribe by 1st June and get the print edition when its released in the second week of June.In the TV miniseries Lessons in Chemistry, chemist Elizabeth Zott presents her research on de novo nucleotide synthesis to a panel of suited and bespectacled colleagues. ‘Unlike the amino study group’, says Zott, ‘we ...