Paul Berg obituary
Nobel prizewinning biochemist who was a pioneer in the field of genetic engineering
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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"