Friedrich Miescher is also known for demonstrating that carbon
dioxide concentrations in blood regulate breathing.
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Miescher felt that his partial deafness would be
a disadvantage as a doctor so he turned to physiological chemistry.
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Friedrich Miescher discovered DNA in 1869, although scientists
did not understand DNA was the genetic material in cells until 1943.
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Miescher came from a scientific family;
his father and his uncle held the chair of anatomy at the University of Basel; as a boy, he was shy but intelligent.