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11 April 2013 Last updated at 13:54 ET

The Nobel Prize won by British scientist Francis Crick for his discovery of DNA has sold for $2.27m (1.47m) at auction in New York.

It was bought by Jack Wang, CEO of a Shanghai-based biomedical firm, who had flown in specially for the sale.

Professor Crick won the prize in 1962 for his discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule, making it possible to decode how living beings function.

It was one of 10 lots put up for sale by Crick's heirs.

On Wednesday a letter written by Crick, describing for his 12-year-old son his discovery of the double helix shape of DNA, sold for $5.3m - far exceeding its estimate.

The sales will in part benefit scientific research.

Much of the bidding at Thursday's auction happened remotely, by telephone and internet - but Jack Wang was so determined to buy the Nobel Prize medal that he flew in from California, and was prepared to offer double what he ended up paying, reports the BBC's Barbara Plett from New York.

He said he was looking for ways to encourage research into his own company's technology.

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French police are collecting DNA samples of detectives and medical staff who worked on the Alp murder of a British-Iraqi family to exclude their DNA from the case after an expert accidentally contaminated crime-scene material, a prosecutor said Saturday.

Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud denied media reports suggesting the DNA could be that of the still unidentified killer, saying it belonged to a ballistic expert who handled material that had already been thoroughly analysed by police.

"No other DNA trace has been found at the moment," he said.

The contamination has, however, prompted police to collect elimination samples from investigators, rescue workers, medical staff and laboratory technicians in case more elements are contaminated.

Police in France have been struggling to solve the case of the shootings last year in the Haute-Savoie department, where Saad al-Hilli, his wife Iqbal and her mother Suhaila al-Allaf were all found dead inside their estate car near Lake Annecy on September 5, along with a French cyclist who investigators believe was an innocent bystander.

The couple's two young daughters survived the attack, which took place in the village of Chevaline, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Daillon.

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These are believed to include spent gun cartridges and even parts of the murder weapon which mysteriously broke during the attack.

The DNA does not match any of the people who first arrived at the scene of the killings, including British cyclist Brett Martin an ex RAF Serviceman who raised the alarm and three French hikers.

Now Mr Maillaud has asked for saliva samples of all the police and medics who dealt with the early investigation.

This is to ensure that the scene was not contaminated with their DNA something which the authorities made every effort to avoid.

The DNA is being analysed by scientists at the gendarmes national criminal research institute, the IRCGN, near Paris.

Samples have also been delivered to Christian Doutremepuich, a professor who runs a state-of-the-art laboratory in Bordeaux, in south west France.

Mr Maillaid said the research protocols of the two centres were very different ensuring the best possible chance of linking the DNA with the killer.

"This is a classic procedure," said Mr Maillaud. "It means that we do not put all our eggs in one basket."

Mr Maillaud said that they needed to ensure the DNA was not a result of "pollution at the scene" before making an effort to link it with known hitmen and other criminals who may be living abroad.

The aim is to build up a complete database of everyone who approached the al-Hillis car, and the surrounding areas, said Mr Maillaud, who said that a tight security perimeter had been put in place within hours of the crime.

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This story was updated at 12:45 p.m. ET to include the buyer's name and comments from Crick's son and granddaughter.

A Nobel Prize medal honoring the discovery of DNA's twisted ladder shape was sold at auction today (April 11) in New York for more than $2 million.

Francis Crick was one of three men awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for deciphering the DNA molecule's double-helix structure in 1953. Sixty years after the discovery, the CEO of a Chinese biomedical firm paid $2,270,500 for Crick's medal and accompanying diploma at Heritage Auctions.

At a separate sale yesterday, a letter penned by Crick set the world record for any letter ever sold at auction. An anonymous bidder paid just over $6 million for the note Crick wrote to his 12-year-old son that explained the DNA discovery and was signed "lots of love, Daddy." The previous record was set in 2008 when someone paid $3.4 million for an anti-slavery letter written by Abraham Lincoln.

"It's a win for science worldwide," Kindra Crick, granddaughter of the famous researcher, told LiveScience today after the auction.

A chunk of the proceeds from this week's sales are set to benefit research institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. Crick's family and Heritage Auctions plan to donate a portion of today's earnings to The Francis Crick Institute, a medical research institute, scheduled to open in London in 2015. And some of the proceeds from yesterday's letter auction are set go to the Salk Institute in California, where Crick, who died in 2004, studied consciousness later in his career. [See Photos of Crick's Medal & Other Auction Items]

There was little precedent for today's sale. Heritage Auctions had valued the Nobel medal and diploma at $500,000 a fourth of what it raked in. Nobel medals appear to have changed hands publicly in only a couple of instances and none had been publicly auctioned off before. Crick's medal might be considered particularly valuable as it honored one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century.

As early as the late 1800s, scientists knew that the DNA molecule existed, but not what it looked like or its true function. The discovery of DNA's double helix structure was key to understanding how the molecule worked as a code for genes.

The medal and diploma were bought by Jack Wang, the CEO of Biomobie, a biomedical company based in Shanghai. Wang flew to New York for the auction and said in a statement that he hopes the objects will inspire discoveries that "recover damaged human organs and retard the aging process, achieving the goal of self recovering from disease and poor health conditions."

Kindra Crick said she was confident the buyer would carry on her grandfather's "vision of going after profound discovery" and said he was interested in displaying the medal publicly.

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MYSTERY DNA found at the scene where a British family were gunned down in the Alps, could be the killer's, cops say.

The possible breakthrough comes more than seven months after the shootings in an isolated beauty spot close to Lake Annecy.

Saad Al-Hilli, 50, died alongside his wife Ikbal, 47, and his mother-in-law Suhalia Al-Allaf, 74, in their BMW car on September 5.

The family, from Claygate, Surrey, were on a camping holiday when the tragedy happened.

Sylvain Mollier, a 45-year-old French cyclist was also killed in the bloodbath, which is believed to have been carried out by at least one gunman brandishing a pistol.

Scene ... family were gunned down at isolated spot

Now Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud has confirmed that "unidentified DNA" was found on "elements at the scene".

These are believed to include spent gun cartridges and even parts of the murder weapon which mysteriously broke during the attack.

The DNA does not match any of the people who first arrived at the scene of the killings, including British cyclist Brett Martin - an ex RAF Serviceman who raised the alarm - and three French hikers.

It is being analysed at two laboratories in France and will enable detectives to step up their international manhunt for the murderer.

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