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Nobel laureate Arthur Kornberg dies
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:50:14
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Arthur Kornberg
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Nobel medicine laureate Arthur Kornberg whose works have revolutionized genetic researches, dies of respiratory failure in California.
Kornberg, an emeritus professor of biochemistry at Stanford's School of Medicine, shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Dr. Severo Ochoa in 1959.
He was honored for synthesizing DNA, the blueprint of heredity, and Ochoa for the synthesis of RNA, the genetic message derived from DNA.
Kornberg was one of six Nobel laureates whose sons also received the prize. In 2006, his son, Roger Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating the first pictures of how genes convey messages so that cells can make proteins.
JM/RE
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