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Lasker Lunch Remarks

Title:: Lasker Lunch Remarks
Creator:: Nirenberg, Marshall W.
Date:: 21 November 1968
Description:: These remarks are transcribed and are an extension of the views presented in Marshall Nirenberg's "Preliminary notes for speech given at the Lasker Awards luncheon." Nirenberg adds, "The major point is that it should be possible in the future to synthesize genetic messages and use them to program cells. It seems likely that man eventually be able to instruct his own cells, and ultimately, influence his own evolution."
Location:: Box: 4. Folder: 10
Rights:: Reproduced with permission of Marshall W. Nirenberg.
Genre:: Speeches
Notes
Subject:: Genes
Format:: Text
Extent:: 1 pages
Relation:: Preliminary notes for speech given at the Lasker Awards luncheon, 1968
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: JJBBKK
NLM ID:: 101584910X155
Profiles Collection:: The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584910X155
Story Section:: Translating the Code of Life and the Nobel Prize, 1962-1968