Fred Sanger, double Nobel laureate : a biography /
Considered 'the father of genomics', Fred Sanger (1918-2013) paved the way for the modern revolution in our understanding of biology. His pioneering methods for sequencing proteins, RNA and, eventually, DNA earned him two Nobel Prizes. He remains one of only four scientists (and the only B...
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Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Brief chronology
- Honours
- Introduction
- A Quaker upbringing
- How about studying insulin?
- Radioactive sequencing of proteins and nucleic acids
- Interview of Fred by the author in 1992 : early life
- Interview of Fred by the author in 1992 : insulin and the Biochemistry Department, Cambridge University
- Interview of Fred by the author, 1992 : nucleic acids at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
- Post-Sanger sequencing : high throughput, automated sequencing
- Cancer : the impact of new generation sequencing
- Commentaries on Fred Sanger's scientific legacy / by Paul Berg, Elizabeth Blackburn, Sir John Sulston, David Bentley, and Paul Nurse
- Epilogue.
