Making triplet codons, Marshall Nirenberg
Interviewee: Marshall Nirenberg. Marshall Nirenberg talks about the contributions of Maxine Singer, Marianne Grunberg-Monago and Phil Leder. (DNAi Location: Code > Reading the code > Players > Marshall Nirenberg & collaborators > Making the triplets)
Maxine Singer, here at the NIH and, and Marianne Grunberg-Monago who was visiting her lab from France, who had discovered the enzyme, worked with Phil Leder in my lab to devise conditions where they could add to a doublet, to a known doublet, they could add one or a few bases at a time to the three prime end of the, of the oligonucleotide.
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