An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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Biochemical method for inserting new genetic information into DNA of simian virus 40: Circular SV40 DNA molecules containing Lambda phage genes and the galactose operon of Escherichia coli.

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (U.S.A.), 69, 2904-2909, 1972.

First recombinant DNA molecules generated. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

In 1980 Berg was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA." The other half was awarded  to Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids."



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Recombinant DNA, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry (selected)
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