Rosalind Franklin, DNA Discoveries in Science and Art

Rosalind Franklin, was the scientist who made the first clear X-ray images of the structure of DNA.

Artists Wyllie O Hagan discovered Franklin's work on DNA whilst working in an Artist Residency in a Cancer Research UK laboratory in London

Franklin's X-ray picture 'Photo 51' informed Crick and Watson of DNA's double helix structure.

They received the Nobel Prize, her contribution was unacknowledged.

Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958, aged 37.

O Hagan, an ovarian cancer survivor, received diagnosis and treatment of the disease whilst working on the Franklin project. The artists use their art to support awareness raising missions for ovarian cancer.

Wyllie O Hagan's art on Franklin was exhibited in The Smith Killien Gallery, in Charleston, SC, USA from 6-8th September 2007. It was hosted by the Center for Women Charleston.
http://www.c4women.org

Read the Charleston Post and Courier article "A life cut short" online at:

http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/sep/03/art_honors_dna_chemist_raises_ovar...


For more information about Wyllie O Hagan and Rosalind Franklin, visit their website at
http://www.wyllieohagan.com

©2007 Wyllie O Hagan


DIAGNOSIS AND SYMPTOMS OF OVARIAN CANCER

The Gynecologic Cancer Foundation, the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists and the American Cancer Society led the effort to form a consensus statement on ovarian cancer. Their statement follows:

Historically ovarian cancer was called the "silent killer" because symptoms were not thought to develop until the chance of cure was poor. However, recent studies have shown this term is untrue and that the following symptoms are much more likely to occur in women with ovarian cancer than women in the general population. These symptoms include:

Bloating
Pelvic or abdominal pain
Difficulty eating or feeling full quickly
Urinary symptoms (urgency or frequency)
Women with ovarian cancer report that symptoms are persistent and represent a change from normal for their bodies. The frequency and/or number of such symptoms are key factors in the diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Several studies show that even early stage ovarian cancer can produce these symptoms.

Women who have these symptoms almost daily for more than a few weeks should see their doctor, preferably a gynecologist. Prompt medical evaluation may lead to detection at the earliest possible stage of the disease. Early stage diagnosis is associated with an improved prognosis.

Several other symptoms have been commonly reported by women with ovarian cancer. These symptoms include fatigue, indigestion, back pain, pain with intercourse, constipation and menstrual irregularities. However, these other symptoms are not as useful in identifying ovarian cancer because they are also found in equal frequency in women in the general population who do not have ovarian cancer.

For accurate information about ovarian cancer, go to
http://www.ovariancancer.org/

Wyllie O Hagan are artistic sponsors of The Ovarian Cancer Debate
http://www.ovariancancerdebate.blogspot.com

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[yellowlabrador]

Your best video ever. 5 stars

[wyllieohagan]

Thank you very much indeed for that lovely friend.

This was one hard earning piece of work I can tell you.

All the best

[rephibian]

Ms. Franklin would be pleased with the artists' work.

[rabbitwho]

Why on earth when you get a list of women's inventions and discoveries is it silly things like "wind-shield wipers"

the discovery of DNA and the invention of the first computer programming languages... never mentioned! And these things were done in a world and in fields where women were openly ridiculed and actually not allowed the same research opportunities or funds as their male counterparts!

[german18072]

@german18072 where i put suported i mean suffered.. sorry im not from an anglo parlant country

[sTapleEVA]

@german18072 compleatly wrong, watson and crick would have accomplished nothing without her, she discovered dna through 2 years of mathamatical equasions and sacrificing her body/life for her work. sure she was a bitch, but the award was given away for discovering the secret of life and helping man kind go forward, not being nice. she was lied to and stolen from.

[OscarWilkins]

@Teldumor thank you.

[applenienie]

Amazing video. Great job.

[german18072]

i just dont like history to be turn in a movie of hollywood

[german18072]

For thousands of year people look objects fall and yet only some of them from aristoteles to newton will be remember to present a coherent hypotesis. So she was excellent in the science lab and got amazing r x d. images but she quit this field of investigation unsolving the problem. she suported discrimination and she was a brave great woman. Nobel prize rule say noy posthoumous. further more she doesnt deserve, and is science not ego fight. beautiful art by the way.

[german18072]

its amazing how the world is becoming more and more sensationalist. 1) im in the scientific world and franklin is very well known, though not studied (cause her model was wrong). 2) she was offered to sign in the publication and she refused. 3) she never presented a correct model on her own. 4) of course she was a great scientist but her work is not nearly as the level of watson and crick

[ivanriches]

This is wonderful stuff

[rabbitwho]

@miguelmouta True. But it hasn't happened so often to men that the crowning achievement of their gender is so often sighted as the wind screen wiper. *shudder*

[miguelmouta]

@rabbitwho There are lots of invention - and discoveries- made by men , wich were

 also ridiculed. Vanity and treachery, is not an exclusive ,sex-linked , genetic trait.