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Lederberg

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Led·er·berg (ldr-bûrg, ldr-), Joshua Born 1925.
American geneticist. He shared a 1958 Nobel Prize for work with genetic mechanisms.
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Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg put it in the bluntest terms to me some years ago: "The blood of those who will die if biomedical research is not pursued will be upon the hands of those who don't do it.
Promises, promises: is embryonic stem-cell research sound public ... by Callahan, Daniel / Commonweal
In: Emerging Infectious Diseases from the Global to the Local Perspective (Davis R, Lederberg J, eds).
Assessment of dietary exposure to some persistent organic pollutants ... by Kolb, Anthony / Environmental Health Perspectives
And we refer the avid reader and the medical scholar to the writings of Rockefeller University's distinguished emeritus president, Doctor Joshua Lederberg, who for many years has been telling us that the microbes have taken our best shot, and are now waging a massive counteroffensive against antibiotics and the other "wonder drugs" that, not so long ago, were believed to have accomplished the final solution to the microbe problem.
End of the world scenario: every few years, TIE's favorite ... by Ledeen, Michael A. / The International Economy
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