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Word: birnberg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experiment was the culmination of years of genetic tinkering by three biochemists: Richard Palmiter, of the University of Washington in Seattle, and Ronald Evans and Neal Birnberg, of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif. The gene they prepared for insertion into mice was a carefully crafted composite. It consisted of a rat growth-hormone gene plus part of a mouse gene. The mouse portion served as a switch to activate the rat gene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mighty Mice | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

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