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Swiss microbiologist and geneticist

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Werner Arber was a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist who made important contributions to understanding how bacteria protect themselves from viruses through a process involving DNA cutting and modification. His work on restriction enzymes—the molecular "scissors" that cut DNA at specific points—earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and laid crucial groundwork for modern genetic engineering and DNA research.

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  • Biomedizin und Ethik
  • Grundlagen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre

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Werner Arber (born 3 June 1929 in Gränichen, Aargau) is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. Their work would lead to the development of recombinant DNA technology.

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