Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Friedrich Miescher (1844 - 1895) was a biologist born in Basel. He discovered the nucleic acids (e.g. DNA) during his work at the Felix Hoppe-Seyler laboratory in Tübingen. This article is a stub. External links Friedrich Miescher Laboratory This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.