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Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered gene splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that gene in eukaryote are not contiguous strings but contain intron, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different protein from the same DNA sequence". Sharp was born in Falmouth, Kentucky. He studied at Union... full article at wikipedia
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