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Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform

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When proteins are the desired end result, the E. coli molecular machinery for translating mRNA into proteins is used after the T7 system makes the RNA. Studier continued studying the T7 polymerase and promoter, fine-tuning the system for years, and publishing new improved versions as recently as 2018. and around the world.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Credit: Bruce Wetzel and Harry Schaefer, NCI, NIH | License Progress in biology is arguably moving faster today than at any point in the course of human history. Artificial Life (2018). Nature Biotechnology (2018). Science (2018). Link Modelling and analysis of gene regulatory networks , by Karlebach G. &

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Credit: Bruce Wetzel and Harry Schaefer, NCI, NIH | License Last edit: 13 September 2023 Progress in biology is arguably moving faster today than at any point in the course of human history. Artificial Life (2018). Nature Biotechnology (2018). Science (2018). & Shamir R. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2008).

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