Benzer, Seymour

Yi-Jyun Lin, Laurent Seroude, Seymour Benzer, Extended Life-Span and Stress Resistance in the Drosophila Mutant methuselah. Science, 282 (1998), 943-946. 

After the phage meeting, I had 3 months until I would begin work in Seymour Benzer s lab. I decided to isolate the Volkin-Astrachan RNA and to examine the physical properties of the RNA. From discussions with Jim Watson and Sol Spiegelman, I was... 

Of course, Seymour Benzer was also one of many at that time who were trying to elucidate the mechanism of information transfer from genes to proteins. However, he was very critical of what he called the rat race at that time he was no doubt unique. Later, whenever I was involved in a competitive race in science, I recalled his comments on the rat race and avoided being trapped by this danger that so often plagued many competent scientists. 

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