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Oswald T. Avery and the Technological Basis for the Discovery of DNA at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (2012)

Stapleton, Darwin H. (Author)

Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Volume: 18
Pages: 35-44

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23789339

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Medical technology DNA; RNA Molecular biology Genetics Discovery in science Engineering, biomedical Avery, Oswald Theodore Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research

The pursuit of the 'transforming principle' in the Rockefeller laboratory of Oswald T. Avery was aided by several scientific instruments and resulted in the identification of DNA as the genetic material in 1944. This discovery, fundamental to modern molecular biology, has not been understood as having an important technological dimension. This article concludes by suggesting reasons why the history of scientific discovery underplays the role of technology.

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