Oliver Smithies
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Oliver Smithies
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Oliver Smithies was a British-American geneticist and physical biochemist. He is known for introducing starch as a medium for gel electrophoresis in 1955, and for the discovery, simultaneously with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of altering animal genomes than previously used, and the technique behind gene targeting and knockout mice. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin
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British-American geneticist (1925–2017)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Smithies
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2006-02-27T11:00:12Z
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2024-09-13T09:13:26Z
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