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Int J Dev Biol,
2000]
1969 was a landmark year. But for me it was not Neil Armstrong's giant leap or Woodstock heralding the beginning of the end of the sixties that sticks in my mind. It was a visit I made to Cambridge to meet a "bloke who is starting a new project to study some sort of worm", as my head of department at the Medical Research Council's National Institute of Medical Research informed me...