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Paul Berg Biography

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Paul Berg is a renowned American molecular biologist, known for his pioneering work in DNA recombinant technology. Born on June 30, 1926, he has made significant contributions to the field of molecular biology.

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“With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.”

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“That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.”

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“Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.”

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“Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.”

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“But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.”

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“But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.”

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“By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.”

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“Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.”

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“Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.”

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“Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.”

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“Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.”

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About the Author

Born: June 30, 1926
Known for: Scientist
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