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On this date in 1949, two doctors saw something new. Daniel C. Pease and Richard F. Baker, both assistant professors at the University of Southern California, used a regular electronic microscope and a cutting technique they developed to magnify the tissue of a fruit fly 120,000 times. What they saw was a spindle-shaped object 1-100,000th of a centimeter long and 1-1-millionth of a centimeter wide. It was the first sighting of a gene. The New York Times, at the time, reported that "the observation ... is expected to be of great importance in medical and biological research, particularly in connection with germs and viruses."

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