A brief tribute to a great and influential scientist. I’ll explain later. [Update: Okay, let me explain. That is a DNA sequence. Every set of three letters codes for an amino acid, and each amino acid is denoted by a letter. So CGC encodes arginine, which is denoted by an R. If you read along the sequence and translate it in this way, it spells out “RIP FRED SANGER”. Fred Sanger was an incredible
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