Dulbecco, Renato

David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, and Howard M. Temin... 

Various hemoglobin specimens have been supplied for this research. The authors wish to acknowledge the very valuable help in this respect of (a) Dr. W. P. Henschele, Head Veterinarian, San Diego Zoo (b) Dr Renato Dulbecco, Division of Biology, California Institute of Tech-... 

Baltimore, David (b. 1938) American biochemist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in medicine with Howard Temin and Renato Dulbecco for discovering an enzyme, called reverse transcriptase, that could make DNA from RNA. This viral enzyme, present in retroviruses such as HIV, enables these viruses to insert their genome into the DNA of the host cell. Its discovery showed that Francis Crick s fundamental genetic dogma —that the sequence is always from DNA to RNA to protein—was wrong. 

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