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Miescher

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Mie·scher (mshr), Johann Friedrich 1844-1895.
Swiss physiologist who discovered (1869) nucleic acid.


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Botond Roska and his colleagues at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel believe that this ability may have evolved to speed escape from predators.
Using bandages from injured Prussian War soldiers and the contents of a pig's stomach, Friedrich Miescher, a keen young scientist at Europe's first biochemistry lab, made a crucial discovery about the nucleus of all cells.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1869 Johann Miescher isolates a molecule rich in phosphorus and nitrogen that he calls nuciein, later revealed to be DNA.
 
 
 
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