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...Marshall Nirenberg identifies the first of 64 three-letter genetic codes for proteins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chain Of Events | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...start over interviewing with other NIH researchers and, although he knew little about genetics, he impressed future Nobel Prize winning geneticist Marshall Nirenberg so much that Bernfield became a postdoctoral fellow in Niremberg?...

Author: By Gary P. H. ho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Med. School Researcher Dies at 63 | 4/3/2002 | See Source »

...which is laboring under an $8.4 billion debt, indicated in March that it would be willing to entertain bids for some of its magazine properties -- Mirabella included. The news has caused little disturbance at Mirabella. "It would have no effect on my business or my people," says Julie Lewit-Nirenberg, the magazine's publisher. "I'm very sanguine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fresh Take on Fashion | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

Other members of the delegation to the White House were Marshall W. Nirenberg, professor of genetics and biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health; Victor F. Weisskopf, professor of physics at MIT; and the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Pio Laghi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hiatt Meets Reagan On Nuclear Threat | 12/15/1981 | See Source »

Using this clue as their Rosetta stone, Nirenberg and other researchers eventually found one or more three-letter code words, or codons, that could call up every single amino acid?plus other words that acted as punctuation, marking the start or completion of a message ordering the production of a protein. Even more remarkable, they learned that the code was universal: the same four letters, taken three at a time to form a single genetic word, code the same amino acids in all living things. Thus by the mid-1960s, scientists finally understood how DNA passes on genetic information with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE CELL: Unraveling the Double Helix and the Secret of Life | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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