Paul Berg Quotes

• Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

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  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Science

• By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

  Paul Berg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chemistry

• But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

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  Tags in Prospect, Design

• Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.

  Paul Berg

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Evolutionary

• By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Career, Considerable

• Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

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• Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

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• That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Chemistry

• But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

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  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Necessary

• Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

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  Topics in Society

  Tags in Relationship, Science

• Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

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  Tags in Today, Attempt

• With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discovery

• Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.

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  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Public, Discussion

Paul Berg (13)

Birth:	30th June, 1926
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Biochemist

About

Berg was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Sarah, a homemaker, and Harry Berg, a clothing manufacturer. Berg graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1943, received his B.S. in biochemistry from Penn State University in 1948 and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 1952. He is a member of the Beta Sigma Rho fraternity.

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