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A biography of Paul Berg : the recombinant DNA controversy revisited /
With a Foreword by Sydney Brenner (Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2002). This biography details the life of Paul Berg (Emeritus Professor at Stanford University), tracing Berg's life from birth, in 1926, to the present, with special emphasis on his enormous scientific contributions,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Jersey :
World Scientific,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Growing up in Brooklyn
- The essential Paul Berg
- College and World War II
- Western Reserve University
- Copenhagen
- Washington University, St. Louis
- Discovering transfer RNA
- Stanford University and its refurbished Department of Biochemistry
- Transcription and translation : new directions
- Making recombinant DNA : the first faltering steps
- Making recombinant DNA : a major breakthrough
- EcoRI restriction endonuclease : a major breakthrough
- "Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys"
- Yet another Stanford contribution
- An historic meeting in Hawaii
- The recombinant DNA controversy
- A momentous Gordon Research Conference
- Making recombinant molecules with frog DNA
- The controversy heats up
- Asilomar II
- The dissenters : a different point of view
- The aftermath
- Legislative and revisionist challenges to recombinant DNA
- Asilomar II : lessons learned
- The Nobel Prize in chemistry
- Commercializing the technology
- Life goes on
- The "retirement" years
- Public policy issues : and other interests
- Personal challenges.