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Paul Berg

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With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.


— Paul Berg


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By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.


— Paul Berg


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But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.


— Paul Berg


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But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.


— Paul Berg


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By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.


— Paul Berg


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Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.


— Paul Berg


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Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.


— Paul Berg


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Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.


— Paul Berg


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Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.


— Paul Berg


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Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.


— Paul Berg


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Berg was recognized for "his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids with particular regard to recombinant DNA" while Sanger and Gilbert were honored for "their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids. He worked with Arthur Kornberg while at Washington University. After developing the technique Berg used it for his studies of viral chromosomes.

Berg received his undergraduate education at Penn State University where he majored in biochemistry. Berg worked as a professor at Washington University School of Medicine and Stanford University School of Medicine in addition to serving as the director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine.

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