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Researchers at the Rockefeller Institute determine that genetic information is passed through DNA.

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After studying pneumococcal bacteria, the researchers determine that DNA is the "transforming principle" as the carrier of hereditary information.

The chemical structure of DNA (the double helix) will be discovered in 1953.