Richard J. Roberts
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Research director, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Mass., U.S. Recipient of 1993 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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Nucleic acid, naturally occurring chemical compound that serves as the main information-carrying molecule of the cell and that directs the process of protein synthesis, thereby determining the inherited characteristics of every living thing. Nucleic acids are further defined by their ability to beβ¦
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