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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993

Further reading

 

"The unusual origin of the polymerase chain reaction". Scientific American (1990). Vol. 262:4, 56-61.

Current Opinion in Biotechnology – Protein Engineering (1993). Vol. 4.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Information about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1993 (press release).

 

  

 

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 »
Based on materials from the 1993 Nobel Poster for Chemistry.
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