CGC Bibliography Paper 5606

Accolade for elegans.

Bargmann C, Hodgkin J

Medline:

12526801

Citation:

Cell 111: 759-762 2002

Type:

REVIEW

Genes:

ced-1 ced-2 ced-3 ced-4 ced-9 lin-12 nuc-1

Abstract:

In 1963, Sydney Brenner, one of the founders of molecular biology, had reached an intellectual impasse. He felt that there were few advances left in that field that would have the significance of the discovery of mRNA and the elucidation of the genetic code, both of which he had participated in, and in any case with so many Americans joining in, the chemical details of replication and so forth would all be worked out soon. Brenner thought large thoughts, and the questions that were left seemed too