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Toward the ‘new century’ of handedness in biology: In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Francis Crick

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Francis Crick (L) with P. M. Bhargava (C) and D. Carleton Gajdusek (R) in CCMB, Hyderabad, November 1987. Photo courtesy Photography Section, CCMB.

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Tamura, K. Toward the ‘new century’ of handedness in biology: In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Francis Crick. J Biosci 41, 169–170 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-016-9615-z

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