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Maclyn McCarty, MD, genetic research pioneer, dies at 93
January 24th, 2005
Maclyn McCarty, MD, a pioneer in genetic research who helped demonstrate that genes were composed of DNA, has died in New York City. He was 93. His death was announced by Rockefeller University, where worked for more than 60 years. With Oswald Avery, MD, and Colin MacLeod, MD, McCarty conducted experiments in the 1940s on pneumococcus that pinpointed DNA as the carrier of genetic information. Scientists had previously thought DNA too simple a substance to carry such information. The team's work, summarized in a 1944 article in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, paved the way for studies a decade later by James...
Source: Health and Medicine Week (2005-01-24)
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