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Life’s Greatest Secret by Matthew Cobb review – a thrilling account of the DNA revolution

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 | 1:43 AM

The historic race to crack life’s genetic code is revealed as a mixture of experiment, intuition and brilliant guesswork in Cobb’s authoritative study

In June 1966, the British Nobel laureate Francis Crick helped to organise a meeting of the world’s leading geneticists at Cold Spring Harbour near New York. It was to be a triumphant event. For the previous decade and a half, biologists had been struggling to unravel the genetic code, the biological cipher that determines how genes are passed on to future generations and which controls the construction of proteins in our bodies.