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Charles Yanofsky

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American geneticist (1925-2018)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1925 to 2018 · aged 92
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Charles Yanofsky was an American geneticist on the faculty of Stanford University who contributed to the establishment of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis and discovered attenuation, a riboswitch mechanism in which messenger RNA changes shape in response to a small molecule and thus alters its binding ability for...

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2003National Medal of Science
2003Wilbur Cross Medal
1997William C. Rose Award
1990Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
1985Canada Gairdner International Award
1985Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1983Genetics Society of America Medal
1976Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
1972Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology
1971Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
1966Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize
1964NAS Award in Molecular Biology

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Charles Yanofsky was an American geneticist on the faculty of Stanford University who contributed to the establishment of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis and discovered attenuation, a riboswitch mechanism in which messenger RNA changes shape in response to a small molecule and thus alters its binding ability for the regulatory region of a gene or operon.

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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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deceased
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Lived 1925 to 2018 · aged 92
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