Friedrich Miescher

However, practical use is currently limited by the high costs of production and the slow speed of data retrieval, which prevents it from being a viable alternative for most technology applications.

History The study of this molecule began in 1869 when a Swiss physician named Friedrich Miescher discovered a substance within the nuclei of white blood cells.

He had been examining pus from discarded surgical bandages and found a microscopic material that did not behave like protein.

He called it nuclein.

Anyhow, so, uh, in Stockholm, let's now cut do- cut to the Nobel Prize ceremony.

In Stockholm, Peter Reichardt, who is presenting, um, the ceremony, noted that exactly 100 years earlier, Friedrich Miescher had first isolated nucleic acid from cell nuclei, and that Khorana's synthetic nucleic acids had been a prerequisite for the final solution of the code.

After Nobel Prize, instead of celebrating, instead of feeling euphoric, he went into depression.

He actually vanished from his lab, and he went to Vancouver, and he would be found sitting in front of, uh, the-