Editing 1958 in science (section)

==Biology==
* [[Francis Crick]] states the "[[central dogma of molecular biology]]".<ref>{{cite book|last=Crick|first=F. H. C.|chapter=On Protein Synthesis|editor=Saunders, F. K.|title=Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, Number '''XII''': The Biological Replication of Macromolecules|date=1958|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=138–163}}</ref>
* [[John Gurdon]] [[Cloning|clones]] a frog using [[somatic-cell nuclear transfer]] from a ''[[Xenopus]]'' tadpole.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gurdon|first1=J. B.|authorlink1=John Gurdon|last2=Elsdale|first2=T. R.|last3=Fischberg|first3=M.|doi=10.1038/182064a0|title=Sexually Mature Individuals of Xenopus laevis from the Transplantation of Single Somatic Nuclei|journal=Nature|volume=182|issue=4627|pages=64–65|year=1958|pmid=13566187|bibcode=1958Natur.182...64G|s2cid=4254765}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gurdon|first1=J. B.|authorlink=John Gurdon|title=The developmental capacity of nuclei taken from intestinal epithelium cells of feeding tadpoles|journal=Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology|volume=10|pages=622–640|year=1962|pmid=13951335}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gurdon|first1=J. B.|authorlink=John Gurdon|last2=Byrne|first2=J. A.|title=The first half-century of nuclear transplantation|doi=10.1073/pnas.1337135100|pmid=12821779|pmc=166179|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=100|issue=14|pages=8048–8052|year=2003|bibcode=2003PNAS..100.8048G|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gurdon|first1=J. B.|s2cid=6185731|doi=10.1146/annurev.cellbio.22.090805.140144|title=From Nuclear Transfer to Nuclear Reprogramming: The Reversal of Cell Differentiation|journal=Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology|volume=22|pages=1–22|year=2006|pmid=16704337}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gurdon|first1=J. B.|last2=Melton|first2=D. A.|doi=10.1126/science.1160810|title=Nuclear Reprogramming in Cells|journal=Science|volume=322|issue=5909|pages=1811–1815|year=2008|pmid=19095934|bibcode=2008Sci...322.1811G|doi-access=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Kain|first1=K.|title=The birth of cloning: An interview with John Gurdon|doi=10.1242/dmm.002014|journal=Disease Models and Mechanisms|volume=2|issue=1–2|pages=9–10|year=2009|pmid=19132124|pmc=2615171}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Williams|first1=R.|title=Sir John Gurdon: Godfather of cloning|doi=10.1083/jcb.1812pi|journal=The Journal of Cell Biology|volume=181|issue=2|pages=178–179|year=2008|pmid=18426972|pmc=2315664}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gurdon|first1=J.|title=John Gurdon|journal=Current Biology|volume=13|issue=19|pages=R759–R760|year=2003|pmid=14521852|doi=10.1016/j.cub.2003.09.015|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gurdon|first1=J.|title=Not a total waste of time. An interview with John Gurdon. Interview by James C Smith|journal=The International Journal of Developmental Biology|volume=44|issue=1|pages=93–99|year=2000|pmid=10761853}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2012/press.html|publisher=Nobel Media AB|date=2012-10-08|accessdate=2012-10-08|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – 2012 Press Release}}</ref>
* [[Anne McLaren]], with John D. Biggers, reports the first mammals, a litter of mice, grown from [[embryo]]s developed ''[[in vitro]]'' and transferred to a surrogate mother.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Successful Development and Birth of Mice cultivated ''in vitro'' as Early Embryos|pages=877–8|first1=Anne|last1=McLaren|first2=J. D.|last2=Biggers|doi=10.1038/182877a0|pmid=13590153|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|date=27 September 1958|volume=182|issue=4639|bibcode=1958Natur.182..877M|s2cid=4217944}}</ref>
* Danish virologist [[Preben von Magnus]] gives the first confirmation of [[monkeypox virus]] and description of [[monkeypox]] (in laboratory [[crab-eating macaque]]s).<ref>{{cite web|title=Monkeypox|url=https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html|website=CDC|access-date=2017-10-15|date=2015-05-11|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015113128/https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html|archive-date=2017-10-15}}</ref>