Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular structures and chemical processes underlying biological activity within and between cells, centered largely on the study of nucleic acids and proteins. The term was first used in 1945 by the English physicist William Astbury to describe this approach to biological questions.
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Founded YearYear the term molecular biology was first used, by William Astbury. Central QuestionHow is genetic information encoded in DNA transferred into functioning proteins, and how is that flow of information regulated so that different cells in the same organism, sharing identical DNA, take on entirely different forms and roles? 1 ScopeMolecular biology studies the biological processes of living organisms in terms of the molecules, chiefly DNA, RNA and proteins, that carry them out, and the way those molecules interact and regulate one another. 1 SignificanceJames Watson and Francis Crick's 1953 determination of the double helical structure of DNA, built on X-ray diffraction data, immediately suggested how genetic information could be copied and passed on, giving molecular biology its central organizing structure and launching decades of work on gene expression. 1 Connections
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With James Watson, also live on this atlas; the two shared credit, along with Maurice Wilkins, for the 1962 Nobel Prize following the 1953 discovery.
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Confocal microscopy produces optical sections of fluorescently labeled cells and tissues, a standard imaging technique of molecular and cell biology.
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Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular structures and chemical processes that are the basis of biological activity within and between cells.
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is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular structures and chemical processes that are the basis of biological activity within and between cells
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Infobox fields: Molecular biology, biochemistry, genomics
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Infobox fields: Genetics, molecular biology
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Infobox fields: Neuroscience ; Molecular biology ; Pharmacology
Chinmoy Sankar Dey (Wikipedia)
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Chinmoy Sankar Dey (born 18 March 1961) is an Indian molecular biologist and a professor at Kusuma School of Biological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
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Tapas Kumar Kundu (born 2 January 1962) is an Indian molecular biologist, academician and at present the Director of Central Drug Research Institute, a prestigious research institute of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research at Lucknow.
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Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya (born 4 October 1975) is an Indian molecular biologist, epigeneticist and the principal scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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Joshua Lederberg (May 23, 1925, February 2, 2008) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program.
Charles David Allis (Wikipedia)
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Charles David Allis (March 22, 1951, January 8, 2023) was an American molecular biologist, and the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor at the Rockefeller University.
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Bonnie Lynn Bassler (born 1962) is an American molecular biologist; the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University; and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
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Lynne Elizabeth Maquat is an American biochemist and molecular biologist whose research focuses on the cellular mechanisms of human disease.
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Hugh Esmor Huxley (25 February 1924-25 July 2013) was a British molecular biologist who made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle.
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Justin John Yerbury (3 May 1974-28 July 2023) was an Australian molecular biologist who was spurred to follow a career in biological research when he discovered that his family has the genetic form of motor neurone disease (MND).
Birendra Bijoy Biswas (Wikipedia)
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Birendra Bijoy Biswas (1 March 1928-9 June 2018) was an Indian molecular biologist and a geneticist.
Sidney Altman (Wikipedia)
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Sidney Altman (May 7, 1939, April 5, 2022) was a Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University.
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Peter Courtland Agre (; born January 30, 1949) is a Nobel Laureate American physician, molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.
Elizabeth Blackburn (Wikipedia)
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Per Uhlén (Wikipedia)
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Per Uhlén, born in 1969 in Uppsala, is a Swedish researcher in cell and molecular biology and professor of cell signaling at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
RNA world (Wikipedia)
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The RNA world is a hypothetical stage in the evolutionary history of life on Earth in which self-replicating RNA molecules proliferated before the evolution of DNA and proteins.
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The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a laboratory method widely used to amplify copies of specific DNA sequences rapidly, to enable detailed study.
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