Richard Axel and Linda Buck Awarded 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

[...]Buck made three assumptions that drastically narrowed the field, allowing her to "zero in" on a group of genes that appear to code for the odorant receptor proteins. Because many receptors of this type share certain deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences, Buck designed probes that woul...

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