The motivations that led to the discovery of DNA were from a medical student named Friedrich Miescher in Germany 1869. Instead of becoming a physician, he studied the cell chemistry of the human body. He had a particular involvement. He collected oozing stuff that came from wounds. He thought it might be helpful in understanding proteins. Antiseptics did not exist at that point. Therefore, wounds had plenty of the whitish-yellow stuff coming from the wound. Miescher thought that the pus cell nuclei would have certain kinds of proteins. After investigating, he realized that there was a different substance in the nucleus. He found out that it was in cells throughout the body. Since it came from nuclei in cells, he called it nuclein. He thought