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
Then, during graduate school at the California Institute of Technology in the early 1960s, he was introduced to bacteriophage T7, a virus that infects Escherichia coli bacteria. If a gene was tagged with a special DNA sequence, known as the T7 promoter, then the T7 RNA polymerase would latch on and begin copying it.
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