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Friedrich Miescher was exceptional among his fellow physicians at the Hospital of Basel in that he was interested in receiving dirty bandages, removed from postoperative wounds. He made a habit of carefully examining their contents and, in doing so, became the discoverer of DNA in the year 1869. It is interesting to note that generally unappreciated gifts from the typical hospital environment apparently created the opportunity for making one of the major steps in molecular genetics. Molecular genetics has come of age since, and medicine can now share in its profits.
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Stulp, B.K. (1993). The Role of Molecular-Genetic Tools in Vascular Research. In: van Gilst, W.H., Lie, K.I. (eds) Neurohumoral Regulation of Coronary Flow. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 150. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1900-9_4
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