The inventiveness of nature: an interview with Werner Arber

  Arber remains active in science; he heads the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and has a keen interest in understanding evolution's molecular drivers, one of which--horizontal gene transfer--is a direct descendent of his work on phage transduction. [...]that was not easy because Esther said she...

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Published inPLoS genetics Vol. 10; no. 12; p. e1004879
Main Authors Arber, Werner, Gitschier, Jane
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Public Library of Science 01.12.2014
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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Arber
Arber, Werner
Bacteriophage lambda - physiology
Biology and Life Sciences
Colleges & universities
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
Escherichia coli - genetics
Escherichia coli - virology
Evolution, Molecular
Genes
Genomes
History, 20th Century
Interview
Microorganisms
Molecular Biology - history
Physics
Science
Switzerland
United States
United States
Switzerland
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Summary:  Arber remains active in science; he heads the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and has a keen interest in understanding evolution's molecular drivers, one of which--horizontal gene transfer--is a direct descendent of his work on phage transduction. [...]that was not easy because Esther said she wanted to do some experiments with that phage herself. Short-term risks are those for people who work in the laboratory: a cloned gene with yet unknown function could be toxic or pathogenic, so one should be careful and take the same precautions as for medical microbiological analyses when samples from patients are studied.
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ISSN:1553-7404
1553-7390
1553-7404
DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004879