South African-born Nobel Prize-winning biologist Sydney Brenner, who helped discover the genetic code of DNA, has died at the age of 92
biologist who helped decipher the genetic code and whose research on a roundworm sparked a new field of human disease research, has died. He was 92.
"He will be remembered in perpetuity for his brilliant discoveries that ushered in a new era of science and a new generation of scientists," said Ronald Evans, a biologist at the institute. Brenner's work helped decipher the genetic code and whose research on a roundworm laid the groundwork for decades of human disease research.His most important contribution to science, however, was the work he did with Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, and others to determine the genetic code. In 1961 they demonstrated that DNA is made up of a series of three nucleotides called codons, which encode the amino acids that make up a protein.
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