Linus Pauling reviews his work on the molecular basis of biological specificity and remembers his erroneous conception of a three-chain helix structure for DNA in 1952.
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Pauling, L. Molecular basis of biological specificity. Nature 248, 769–771 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/248769a0
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