The Nobel Prize Celebrates Breakthroughs. Who Celebrates the Foundations?
From a 1964 bacterial genetics experiment to AlphaFold, the genealogy of protein modeling is longer and more crowded than any citation can hold.
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PEOPLE.
Scientists and their ideas
Brilliant, overlooked, controversial and influential scientists. Rivalries, intellectual lineages, mentorship and the history behind major breakthroughs.
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Charles Yanofsky and the Biology Behind the Breakthrough
He showed that genes and proteins line up, then spent decades working out how a cell reads the fine print.
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