Abstract
The spreading of knowledge depends on the access to the information and its immediate use. Models are useful to explain specific phenomena. The scientific community accepts some models in Biology after a period of time, once it has evidence to support it. The model of the structure and function of the DNA proposed by Watson & Crick (1953) was not the exception, since a few years later the DNA model was finally accepted. In Costa Rica, DNA function was first mentioned in 1970, in the magazine Biologia Tropical (Tropical Biology Magazine), more than 15 years after its first publication in a scientific journal. An opposite situation occurs with technical innovations. If the efficiency of a new scientific technique is proved in a compelling way, then the acceptance by the community comes swiftly. This was the case of the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR. The first PCR machine in Costa Rica arrived in 1991, only three years after its publication.
Highlights
The spreading of knowledge depends on the access to the information and its immediate use
The first issue of Tropical Biology Magazine, in July 1953, was a very important date for our scientific community, but a few months earlier that same year was published the model of the structure and function of DNA (Watson and Crick 1953)
One reason to publish a journal in Costa Rica was the perception of some researchers to use our tropical regions in order to study Biology and make a contribution to the scientific community
Summary
The spreading of knowledge depends on the access to the information and its immediate use. The first issue of Tropical Biology Magazine, in July 1953, was a very important date for our scientific community, but a few months earlier that same year was published the model of the structure and function of DNA (Watson and Crick 1953). One reason to publish a journal in Costa Rica was the perception of some researchers to use our tropical regions in order to study Biology and make a contribution to the scientific community.
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