Richard Roberts shares the medicine prize for discovering interrupted genes in higher organisms. His work demonstrated that RNA transcripts can contain noncoding segments that are removed before a mature messenger RNA is produced.
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Richard John Roberts
Nobel Prize history for Richard John Roberts based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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