AXEL, Richard (1946 – )
1946 –
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1979 CE
#13929
Transformation of mammalian cells with genes from procaryotes and eucaryotes.
Axel, along with microbiologist Saul J. Silverstein and geneticist Michael H. Wigler, discovered a technique of cotransformation via transfection. This process, which allows foreign DNA to be inserted into a host cell…
1991 CE
#13930
A novel multigene family may encode odorant receptors: A molecular basis for odor recognition.
"In their landmark paper published in 1991, Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein coupled receptors. By analyzing rat DNA, they estimated that there were approxi…