Boris Magasanik
Boris Magasanik · Science & Medicine
Microbiologist known for work on the regulation of bacterial metabolism
1919, Kharkiv, Ukraine (Russian Empire) — 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Austria · United States
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Boris Magasanik was a Ukrainian-born American microbiologist and biochemist, long a professor at MIT, who was a pioneer in understanding how bacteria regulate their metabolism, including nitrogen regulation, catabolite repression and two-component signaling. His research became foundational to molecular biology and gene regulation. Born to a Jewish family in Kharkiv, he fled with his family after the Russian civil war and later emigrated to the United States.
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Microbiologist known for work on the regulation of bacterial metabolism
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