Prehistory of the notion of circulating nucleic acids in plasma/serum (CNAPS): birth of a hypothesis.

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In the late 50s and early 60s of the last century, a theoretical fight was taking place between Western and Russian scientists about the theory explaining the mechanism of evolution. According to neo-Darwinism, evolution was the result of hazard and necessity, that is, mutations arriving by chance favoring the survival of the fittest. For the Russian geneticists, acquired characteristics were the basis of...

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