Medicine & Surgery
Cracking the genetic code / first synthetic gene
1968-1972 CEHar Gobind KhoranaKhorana's molecular-biology workDiaspora (work abroad)
1968
Helped decipher how nucleotide triplets code for amino acids, then synthesised the first artificial gene.
- Dated
- 1968–1972
- As scholars put it
- 1968-1972 CE
- Originator
- Har Gobind Khorana
- Source text
- Khorana's molecular-biology work
- Region
- Diaspora (work abroad)
- Discipline
- Medicine & Surgery
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Shared the work with Nirenberg and Holley.
Fair to say
By the India-born, later US-based Khorana; Nobel Prize 1968.
Path to modern innovation
Foundational to genetics, biotech and synthetic biology.
Transmission
Work done by the India-born (Punjab) scientist in the US.
References
- 1Nobel Prize records
- 2Khorana's papers
Further reading
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