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Joshua Lederberg

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  • Biographical Information53
  • The Development of Bacterial Genetics45
  • Science and the Public Interest37
  • Launching a New Science: Exobiology and the Exploration of Space16
  • Transduction, Plasmids, and the Foundation of Biotechnology12
  • "Creating Life in the Test Tube," 1959-197010
  • Computers, Artificial Intelligence, and Expert Systems in Biomedical Research10
  • The Synthesis of DNA, 1953-19593
  • Astonishing Machines of Replication: Stanford, 1970-Present2
  • After the Discovery: The Transforming Principle's Reception by the Scientific Community1
  • Breakage-Fusion-Bridge: The University of Missouri, 1936-19411
  • Controlling Elements: Cold Spring Harbor, 1942-19671
  • Shifting Focus: Early Work on Bacterial Transformation, 1928-19401
  • The Controversy over the Regulation of Recombinant DNA Research, 1975-19811
  • The McClintock Renaissance and the Nobel Prize, 1978-19921
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