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| | BIOS Centre Launch, 19 June 2003 |
 | | The official Launch of the BIOS centre was on 19 June 2003, with a public lecture by Dr. Sydney Brenner, introduced by the Director of the LSE, Professor Anthony Giddens, and with comments from Dame Marilyn Strathern, Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, and Professor Henrietta Moore, Deputy Director of the LSE. |
 | | Brenners early research was in molecular genetics, working with bacterophages and bacteria; he discovered messenger RNA which transmits information from DNA to proteins, (with Jacob and Meselson) and, with Francis Crick, showed that the code was composed of triplets. |
 | | Sydney Brenner worked at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, and its successor, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, from 1956 to 1987, when he became Director of the MRC Unit of Molecular Genetics retiring in 1992 from the MRC. |
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