Nirenberg Invents an Experimental Technique That Cracks the Genetic Code

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Article abstract: Nirenberg unraveled the genetic coding problem, developing a breakthrough experimental method.

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Nucleic acids somehow carry the blueprint for the building of proteins; this had been confirmed by 1944 and accepted conclusively by 1952. Nevertheless, it took James D. Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), in 1953, to suggest how the necessary processes of information storage, replication, and transmission might occur. Their model served to fix the course of...

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