Werner Arber, Nobel Laureate Medicine &Physiology 1978, Talk 2009

In this interview during the 59th Nobel Laureates Meeting at Lindau Werner Arber recounts the beginnings of his scientific career. Watson and Crick had discovered the double helix structure of the DNA. Ten years later Arber worked on the basics for the understanding of gene functions. He talks about his research on restriction enzymes and how genome may be affected by epigenetic processes without being changed itself. Werner Arber received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1978 together with Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics.

Looking Back

00:32 Looking Back
03:24 Restriction
06:34 Observing first epigenetic Phenomena

Interview during the 59th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting in 2009

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Science & Technology

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• lnlm09
• Nobel_Laureate
• Lindau
• Arber
• medicine
• genome
• DNA
• epigenetics