Richard Losick
Richard Losick · Science & Medicine
Molecular biologist known for work on gene regulation and bacterial development
1943, USA
United States (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
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Losick, an American molecular biologist documented among Jewish scientists in his field, has spent his career at Harvard, where he is an emeritus professor and was long a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor. He is renowned for illuminating gene regulation and the developmental program by which the bacterium Bacillus subtilis forms dormant spores, revealing how a single cell orchestrates changes in gene expression to build different cell types. His work is a model for understanding cellular differentiation and has trained generations of scientists.
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Molecular biologist known for work on gene regulation and bacterial development
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