DNA is now a household word, but its existence was unknown until 1869. During that year, Johann Friedreich Miescher II first isolated DNA from cells. Born in Basel, Switzerland in 1844, he was the son and nephew of distinguished anatomists at the...

1844-1895 Swiss scientist who discovered nucleic acids. Miescher found that the nuclei of the white blood cells found in pus contained a substance containing phosphorous and nitrogen. The substance was first called nuclein, but after Miescher separated...

Johan Friedrich Miescher (13 August 1844, Basel - 26 August 1895, Davos) was a Swiss biologist. He isolated various phosphate-rich chemicals, which he called nuclein (now nucleic acids), from the nuclei of white blood cells in 1869 at Felix...

Cheilitis granulomatosa Miescher is a rare condition of unknown cause characterized by intermittent lip swelling that gradually persists and causes cosmetic deformity. We report the case of a young woman with cheilitis granulomatosa as a monosymptomatic manifestation of Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome successfully treated by the...

COLOGNE Friedrich Kunath GALERIE BQ Two long, narrow rooms, right next to each other, both visible from the street through high windows - this was the setting of the installation by Cologne-based artist Friedrich Kunath at Galerie BQ. Although the two...