Arthur Kornberg, discoverer of DNA polymerase, dies at 89

This post is a tribute to Arthur Kornberg. He died of respiratory failure on Friday in Stanford, California at the age of 89. He discovered the enzyme DNA polymerase, which replicates the DNA molecule. The search for an enzyme that could synthesize DNA started in 1955, which finally culminated in 1959 with a Nobel Prize [...]

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