That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function a…

- Paul Berg

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them we…

- Paul Berg

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act a…

- Paul Berg

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

- Paul Berg

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionar…

- Paul Berg

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…

- Paul Berg

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occu…

- Paul Berg

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being dis…

- Paul Berg

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship betwee…

- Paul Berg