These scientists laid the foundation for biotechnology and genetic engineering. What has the deciphering brought us since then? The decoding of the genome was a sensation, although the announcement by Craig Venter on April 6, , was somewhat premature.
Khorana, Holley and Nirenberg received the Nobel for their work. The three stop codons were named by discoverers Richard Epstein and Charles Steinberg.
Why was the discovery of DNA in so important? It began the search for gene therapy to cure inherited diseases. Cures for AIDS, cancer, and heart diseases; our technology is still developing, we could save many lives.
His club had twenty hand-picked members, one for each amino acid , and each wore a tie marked with the symbol of that amino acid. The group—which did not include Marshall Nirenberg—met several times during the s but did not manage to be the first to break the code. The scientists who pondered the mystery of the genetic code in the late s came up with many creative theories.
One main problem to work out was how many bases would be in each code word later known as a codon. They knew there was a total of four bases guanine, cytosine, adenine, and thymine. It's a much, much more exciting adventure ahead. Leprosy, meningitis and fruit fly genomes completed. This article is more than 18 years old.
Cambridge scientists in global consortium spell out the 3bn letters of the genome, 50 years on from Crick and Watson's model of DNA. All three are expected to share in the celebrations later this month.
Leprosy, meningitis and fruit fly genomes completed Entire human genome is sequenced.
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