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MESELSON, Matthew Stanley (1930 – )

MESELSON, Matthew Stanley (1930 – )

1930 –

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1958 CE

#256.6

The replication of DNA in Escherichia coli.

The so-called Meselson-Stahl experiment, the first proof of semi-conservative replication of DNA. Semi-conservative replication describes the mechanism of DNA replication in all known cells. It derives its name from t…

1961 CE

#256.10

An unstable intermediate carrying information from genes to ribosomes for protein synthesis.

Demonstration of the existence of “messenger” RNA. The following paper (pp. 581-85) by F. Gros et al. is also relevant.