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Category: Map that Campus
Posted on: October 16, 2009 8:35 AM, by Alex Palazzo
Last week was way too easy. Let's see how fast this one will go.
Here is this week's mystery campus:
The clue is:
Many "U"s into many "F"s!
If this means anything to you leave your answer in the comments section. After 24hrs I'll confirm any correct answers.
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This is really spooky. My student asked me earlier today where NIH was in the USA (we're in the UK) and whether it was a big place: we looked on Google maps. Then Map that Campus pops up! I don't know what the clue relates to though.
Posted by: Pipetman | October 16, 2009 8:50 AM
Bizarrely, that is actually the main campus of NIH.
Posted by: Katharine | October 16, 2009 2:25 PM
This week the clue would apear to be more dificult to crack than the satellite photo. The hint is a reference to a famous experiment that led to a Nobel.
Let me rephrase the clue.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
=>
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Posted by: Alex Palazzo | October 17, 2009 9:21 AM
Okay Nirenberg & Matthaei 'discovering' codons polyuracil synthetic mRNA into an all phenylalanine polypeptide. Ashamed to say I didn't know this was done at the NIH. Crick and Brenner defined the triplet code later. Topical, given the ribosome Nobel last week.
Posted by: Pipetman | October 17, 2009 1:01 PM
National Institutes of Health
Posted by: Bean Lee | October 27, 2009 5:08 PM