When Cambridge biologists James Watson and Francis Crick unravelled the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, their research was labelled groundbreaking.
But even though the discovery would go on to shape genetics, forensics and the medical, legal and scientific professions, nobody could have imagined back then how great an the impact this tiny molecule would have on our everyday language.
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