Fred Sanger


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Noun1.Fred Sanger - English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)
Frederick Sanger, Sanger
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A list of 47 previous winners of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Awards have gone on to win Nobel Prizes for their pioneering work, including Harry Kroto, Fred Sanger and Linus Pauling.
Cypriot chemist wins prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry prize
Sin embargo, en el cuarto lugar de la lista de excelencia suprema se encuentra un articulo de Fred Sanger y colaboradores acerca de la secuenciacion del DNA mediante inhibidores de la terminacion de cadena de la molecula.
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But Fred Sanger, a Quaker and conscientious objector during World War Two, discovered the dideoxy chain termination method which allowed sequences to be read quickly.
'Every Welsh man and woman is an immigrant' Honest! But to prove it, you may need to get your DNA tested. Alistair Moffat, who's heading up a new project to find the ancestral genome of Wales, explains why

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