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Nobel prizewinning biochemist who was a pioneer in the field of genetic engineering

Following his 1972 paper on ‘cutting and pasting’ DNA, he called for an international meeting to draw up ethical and practical guidelines

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Paul Berg, whose experiments reshaped cancer research and spawned the biotech industry, dies

In 1971, he transferred material from one organism to another, creating the first recombinant DNA, or rDNA. He later helped lead a historic effort to write protocols for genetic research.

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

Mazel tov! The whole shtetl buzzed with the news. Chanka, the butcher’s daughter, was engaged to Yankel, the carpenter’s son.  It was a local match, so the whole town got involved in the wedding preparations. A week before the wedding, Chanka could be found sewing the last few stitches on he…