The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry to


Michael Smith Canada, for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies		Kary B. Mullis USA, for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method

Contents:
Introduction » Site-directed mutagenesis reprograms DNA » Tailor-made proteins » The PCR method – a copying machine for DNA molecules » The PCR method already of great use » DNA and the genetic code » Landmarks in the history of gene technology » Further reading »
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