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Lederberg

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Lederberg
Joshua. born 1925, US geneticist, who discovered the phenomenon of transduction in bacteria. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1958 with George Beadle and Edward Tatum


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LIFE AS A SUPERORGANISM - As Ian Willams writes for our next issue, "In 2002, Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg coined the term "superorganism" to describe the ensemble of human and non-human cells that constitute our body.
These debates gained exposure in 1975 at the Asilomar Conference, where Joshua Lederberg was the most outspoken supporter for this emerging field in biotechnology.
Known as one of the founders of molecular biology, Lederberg served as a professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1959, where he conducted research in the genetics of E.
 
 
 
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