No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine. Arthur Kornberg advancebasiccounter Change image and share on social
According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long. Arthur Kornberg 000averagechain Change image and share on social
As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends. Arthur Kornberg airplanebiomedicalcommercial share on social
The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered. Arthur Kornberg basiccuriositydevice share on social
Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft. Arthur Kornberg advancemedicineregress Change image and share on social
I feel now, as we did then, that for an effective approach to the problem of nucleic acid biosynthesis, it was essential to understand the biosynthesis of the simple nucleotides and the coenzymes and to have these concepts and methodology well in hand. Arthur Kornberg acidapproachbiosynthesis share on social
DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done. Arthur Kornberg carrydnainstruction Change image and share on social
Analysis of the composition of samples of DNA from a great variety of sources and by many investigators revealed the remarkable fact that the purine content always equals the pyrimidine content. Arthur Kornberg analysiscompositioncontent Change image and share on social
