biography
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Molecular biologist, born in New York City, USA. He studied at Pennsylvania State and Western Reserve universities, and became professor of biochemistry at Washington University, St Louis, and from 1959 at Stanford University. He devised a method for introducing ‘foreign’ genes into bacteria, so causing the bacteria to produce proteins determined by the new gene; this method of genetic engineering proved of great value in giving biochemical syntheses of insulin and interferon. He shared the 1980 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. |
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