COVER STORY
Secret of Life
Cracking the DNA code has changed how we live

DNA: A Twist of Fate
Francis Crick
James Watson
Rosalind Franklin
Visions of the Future
Pioneers of Molecular Biology

Table of Contents
The complete list of stories from the Feb. 17 issue of TIME magazine

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How DNA Works
The beauty of
DNA is that its
form is its function
Chain of Events
The race to the
new era of
discovery


Do you think scientific advances will wipe out disease in the next 100 years?

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Future of Life
TIME commemorates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA.

Photos From the Event:
  Quotes from the Conference
  Scenes from the Conference
  The Monterey Aquarium

Dispatches From the Event:
  Day 3: Living to 1000?
  Day 2: Tough Questions
  Live from the Future of Life
  The Ghost of Doc Ricketts


Future of Drugs 
The search for better, faster and more effective medicine
1/15/2001
Mapping the Genome 
A project that will transform medicine more than vaccines and antibiotics combined
7/03/2000
Future of Medicine 
Ring in the century of the gene
1/11/1999
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FROM THE FEB 17, 2003 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED SUNDAY, FEB 9, 2003
ILLUSTRATION FOR TIME BY GLEN WEXLER

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