Daniel Nathans, Nobel Prize winner

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: November 18, 1999 | Copyright information

Daniel Nathans, who shared the Nobel Prize for work that led to the field of genetic engineering, died Tuesday of leukemia. He was 71.

Nathans and his students used a restriction enzyme as "biochemical scissors" to analyze DNA. His research, along with that of Swiss scientist Werner Arber, found a protein that could slice DNA in...

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