biography
| name: |
Tjian, Robert (Tse Nan)
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pronunciation:
[jeean]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1949– )
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| biography:
| Geneticist, born in Hong Kong, China. He was a staff investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY (1976–9), then became a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley (1979). One of the most-cited contemporary biochemists in the world, he made major contributions to research on genetic transcription and gene expression in both fruit flies and in mammalian cells infected with cancer-causing viruses. It was his laboratory that developed sequence-specific DNA affinity chromatography, the technique necessary for purifying genetic transcription factors. |
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