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BRENNER, Sydney (1927 – 2019)

BRENNER, Sydney (1927 – 2019)

1927 – 2019

5 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source OIST from Onna Village, Japan · Winter Course · CC BY 2.0

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.

1961 CE

#256.8

General nature of the genetic code for proteins.

The codons in DNA specifying amino acids in proteins.

1964 CE

#13968

Co-linearity of the gene with the polypeptide chain.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Sarabhai, Stretton, Brenner, Bolle. Brenner (Nobel Prize 2002) and colleagues performed the first study to show co-linearity; i.e., that there is a simple congruence be…

1974 CE

#9942

The DNA of CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1974 CE

#9941

The genetics of CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS.

In 2002 Brenner shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programm…