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SPIEGELMAN, Sol (1914 – 1983)

SPIEGELMAN, Sol (1914 – 1983)

1914 – 1983

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Unknown author Unknown author · profiles.nlm.nih.gov MS C 415, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation--Albert Lasker Awards Archives, 1946-, Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine · Public domain

1965 CE

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The synthesis of a self-propagating and infectious nucleic acid with a purified enzyme.

Spiegelman's Monster, the name given to an RNA chain of only 218 nucleotides that can be reproduced by the RNA replication enzyme RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, also called RNA replicase. Spiegelman achieved the first …