By Tom DeRosa, Executive Director of CSI. A remarkable discovery in 1953 at Britain’s Cavendish Laboratory transformed molecular biology, genetics, and the world. Working at the famed University of Cambridge physics lab, James Watson, an American molecular biologist and geneticist, and Francis Crick, an English molecular biologist and biophysicist, revealed for the first time how genetic information is stored and copied. And for some, the landmark discovery raised the question of how the voluminous and detailed information inscribed in the cell got there