Richard Roberts

Richard Roberts is the Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs and a fellow of the Royal Society. He received a PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1968 from Sheffield University and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard before moving to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 1977, his laboratory discovered split genes and mRNA splicing, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1993. In that same year, his laboratory, in collaboration with Xiaodong Cheng, discovered base flipping. He now focuses on bioinformatic analysis of genome sequences and studies of bacterial DNA methylation.

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Biochemistry A Personal Recollection [long_description] The American biochemist Kary Mullis passed away on August 7, 2019, at the age of seventy-four. He will be remembered as the inventor of the polymerase chain reaction, a revolutionary method for copying segments of DNA. Mullis was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention. In this short essay, fellow Nobel laureate Richard Roberts fondly recalls time spent together.

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