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Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner was awarded the Nobel Prize in biology in 2002.
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Genetics' Next Frontier
Sydney Brenner Series: Science and Society 2003-05-21In 1974, I published a paper entitled "The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans ," also known as the nematode. Its first sentence read: "How genes might specify the complex structures found in higher organisms is a major unsolved problem of biology." This remains true today. How do genes build organs, bones, or skin and specify their function? Has our slowness in finding out been due to our difficulties in choosing the right organism to study? ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 17450
