Stories by Alfred E. Mirsky

The findings of modern biology and their implications for man

In 1869 Friedrich Miescher found a substance in white blood cells that he called "nuclein." Cell biologists saw that it was a constituent of chromosomes and hence must play a major role in heredity

The inherited master plan of the cell is contained in the molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid. They direct the manufacture of protein enzymes, which in turn engineer all the chemical reactions of life