DNAGeneticsUnited StatesHistory, 20th CenturySeventy years ago, Oswald Avery and his colleagues from the Rockefeller Institute published the first evidence that genes are made of DNA. Their discovery was received with a mixture of enthusiasm, suspicion and perplexity. In this article, I trace the ...
Avery, Oswald T. (Theodore) (1877–1955) bacteriologist; born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He came to New York City (NYC) in 1887 when his clergyman father began missionary work in the Bowery. He practiced medicine in NYC (1904–07), became a bacteriologist at Hoagland Laboratory,...
Oswald Avery, DNA, and the transformation of biology Seventy years ago, Oswald Avery and his colleagues from the Rockefeller Institute published the first evidence that genes are made of DNA. Their discovery ... M Cobb - 《Current Biology Cb》 被引量: 10发表: 2014年 ...
DNA1877–1955 Canadian -born US medical microbiologist whose work with pneumococcus led not only to important advances related to pneumonia but, surprisingly, to the discovery of the genetic role of DNA.eLSdoi:10.1038/npg.els.0002350Maclyn McCarty...
the work in the 1930s and 1940s of Oswald Avery at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research. Avery's work on how pneumococcal strains could be continuously transformed between the virulent (causing pneumonia) stage to the avirulent stage led him to discover genes and their composition—DNA...
This article describes Griffith's discovery of bacterial transformation and subsequent discovery of DNA's involvement in transformation.O'Connor, ClareNature EducationO'Connor, C. (2008). Isolating hereditary material: Frederick Griffith, Oswald Avery, Alfred Hershey, and Martha Chase. Nature...
Oswald Avery was a Canadian-born American bacteriologist whose research helped ascertain that DNA is the substance responsible for heredity, thus laying the foundation for the new science of molecular genetics. His work also contributed to the understand