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Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner died in April at the age of 92.
Brenner was best known for his discovery of sequences that stop protein translation, mRNA, and his investigation of the nematode C. elegans, which he realized would be an ideal model organism to study cell differentiation and organ development. That work won him the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
“[H]is great strength was in experiments, and in particular the choice and execution of ones that were both important and ingenious,” Francis Crick, the codiscoverer of DNA who shared an office with Brenner at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in the UK, wrote in a tribute to Brenner in The Scientist in 2002.
American geneticist Liane Russell, famous for her work on the deleterious effects of prenatal radiation exposure and the chromosomal basis for sex determination in ...
