Stanley N. Cohen
Stanley N. Cohen · Science & Medicine
Geneticist who co-invented recombinant DNA technology using plasmids, founding genetic engineering
1935, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
United States (Stanford, California)
Stanley N. Cohen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Geneticist who co-invented recombinant DNA technology using plasmids, founding genetic engineering
A physician-geneticist from a Jewish family, Cohen worked at Stanford on bacterial plasmids — small rings of DNA. With biochemist Herbert Boyer he showed in 1973 that genes could be cut, spliced into a plasmid and propagated in bacteria, creating the first recombinant-DNA organisms and founding genetic engineering. The technique underlies modern biotechnology, from insulin production to gene therapy.
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Geneticist who co-invented recombinant DNA technology using plasmids, founding genetic engineering
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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