Qualla: Francis Crick Institute https://qualla.com/francis-crick-institute en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/francis-crick-institute-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Francis Crick Institute https://qualla.com/francis-crick-institute Francis Crick Institute: Introduction https://qualla.com/francis-crick-institute/ Photo credit John Lord from Edinburgh, Scotland, CC BY 2.0. When Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Francis Crick Institute on 9 November 2016, her tour included an unusual ceremonial act: she began the sequencing of the genome of the institute's director, Sir Paul Nurse — all three billion letters of his DNA code. It was an apt inauguration for a building dedicated entirely to biological mystery. The Crick, as it is known, asks seven questions as its founding mission. Not one has yet been fully answered.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/francis-crick-institute-wp/gcpv-francis-crick-institute-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Francis Crick Institute: A Decade in the Making https://qualla.com/francis-crick-institute/ Photo credit Public domain. The Crick's origins trace to 2003, when the Medical Research Council decided its National Institute for Medical Research needed to leave its Mill Hill site. What followed was years of planning, negotiations, and false starts before Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the creati...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/francis-crick-institute-wp/gcpv-francis-crick-institute-a-decade-in-the-making.mp3 0:06 2 full Francis Crick Institute: The Building Below Ground https://qualla.com/francis-crick-institute/ Photo credit Jim Osley, CC BY-SA 2.0. From the street beside St Pancras, the Francis Crick Institute appears as a substantial eight-storey structure. What is less obvious is how much lies underground: a third of the building descends into four basement levels, not for lack of space above but to protect sensitive equi...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/francis-crick-institute-wp/gcpv-francis-crick-institute-seven-questions.mp3 0:06 4 full Francis Crick Institute: Named for a Revolutionary https://qualla.com/francis-crick-institute/ Photo credit Katy Blackwood, CC BY-SA 4.0. The institute was renamed the Francis Crick Institute in July 2011, honouring the British molecular biologist who, together with James Watson, produced the first double-helix model of DNA in 1953. Crick's discovery — built substantially on Rosalind Franklin's X-ray crystallograph...

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