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Description Description of the genesis of the TIFR Institute with notes on its founders and its honorary members; Molecular Biology section was started in '62 with grants from Wellcome Trust of London; 30 staff members present; transfer, replication and recombination of genetic molecules in bacteria was studied, using E. coli they showed that replication and recombination are dissociated, DNA recombination and the relative contributions of the donor and recipient strand were studied; B.subtilis...