Oliver Smithies
Biochemistry, genetics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007
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Oliver Smithies was a biochemist and geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for his work on genetic modification techniques. His research fundamentally advanced our ability to study and understand how genes function by developing methods to precisely alter genes in living organisms.
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- Born
- 1925-06-23
- Died
- 2017-01-10
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- 1
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- Harvey Lectures
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- The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
· 2012 · cited 28,388x
- An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments
· 1992 · cited 24,455x
- Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes
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Oliver Smithies (23 June 1925 – 10 January 2017) was a British-American geneticist and physical biochemist. He is known for introducing starch as a medium for gel electrophoresis in 1955, and for the discovery, simultaneously with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of altering animal genomes than previously used, and the technique behind gene targeting and knockout mice. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for his genetics work.
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1925 births2017 deathsAcademic staff of the University of TorontoAlumni of the University of OxfordAmerican AtheistsAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican Nobel laureatesBritish atheistsBritish biologistsBritish expatriates in the United StatesBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish Nobel laureates