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We have reprinted Watson and Crick's original paper from the 25 April 1953 issue of Nature (with permission of the publisher). It repays careful reading for its scientific content; the spare, precise prose; and the careful references to unpublished experimental results, which we now know gave the authors ample cause for confidence in their proposed structure for DNA.