Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform
Broad Institute
MAY 14, 2024
By 1984, he and Brookhaven colleague John Dunn successfully identified and cloned the protein within T7 that was responsible for rapidly copying T7 DNA into many corresponding strands of RNA — a critical step in the bacteriophage’s ability to infect E. coli genome and let the E. coli had no built-in way to shut it off.
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