Word: maxam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emulate Faust's student, Wagner, and create a homunculus, or artificial man. But they seem to be moving steadily closer to the day when they will be able to reproduce the DNA molecule essential to life. Harvard University Biochemists Argiris Efstratiades, Fotis Kafatos, Thomas Maniatis and Allen Maxam report that they have copied a mammalian gene, a unit of the DNA molecule that transmits a specific inherited trait. Their creation: the gene that orders the production of hemoglobin-a blood component-in rabbits...
...answer, quite naturally, lies somewhere in between. In synthesizing the gene that makes hemoglobin in rabbits, Thomas Maniatis, assistant professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Fotis Kafatos, professor of Biology; Argiris Efstraiadis, doctor candidate in Biology; and Allan Maxam, research assistant in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology have carried science closer to being able to understand how genes express themselves in higher organisms...
Maniatis, Kafatos, and Argiris Efstratiadis, a doctoral candidate in Biology, worked on the project for the past year and a half. Allan Maxam, research assistant in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, joined them last April...
...Maxam said yesterday that as a side effect of the experiment, techniques involving the splitting of DNA and the handling of the resulting fragments had been refined and improved, benefitting future experimenters...