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    The LuriaDelbrück experiment (1943) (also called the Fluctuation Test) demonstrated that in bacteria, genetic mutations arise in the absence of selective...
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    department. In 1941, Delbrück met Salvador Luria of Indiana University who began visiting Vanderbilt. In 1942, Delbrück and Luria published on bacterial...
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    Laboratory and in Delbrück's lab at Vanderbilt University. His famous experiment with Delbrück in 1943, known as the LuriaDelbrück experiment, demonstrated...
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  • 1940, after Delbrück and Luria had met at a physics conference. Delbrück and Salvador Luria began a series of collaborative experiments on the patterns...
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    1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the LuriaDelbrück experiment, which concerned the nature of genetic mutations. He was part...
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    shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria for their "discoveries concerning the genetic structure of viruses"...
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  • on induced mutations in bread mold Neurospora crassa (1941). LuriaDelbrück experiment demonstrates that in bacteria, beneficial mutations arise in the...
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  • virus infection mediated by random mutation. The culminating LuriaDelbrück experiment, also called the Fluctuation Test, demonstrated that Darwin's...
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    mutation rate is by the fluctuation test, also known as the LuriaDelbrück experiment. This experiment demonstrated that bacteria mutations occur in the absence...
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    Hershey–Chase experiment in 1952, provided convincing evidence that DNA, not protein, was the genetic material of life. Delbrück and Luria carried out the Luria–Delbrück...
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    antibacterial-resistance genes was demonstrated in 1943 by the LuriaDelbrück experiment. Antibiotics such as penicillin and erythromycin, which used to...
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  • used in experiments aiming to quantify the number of cells resisting drugs or other external conditions (for instance the LuriaDelbrück experiment or the...
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    Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria. In 1943, Delbrück invited Hershey to Vanderbilt University to discuss his phage research. Together, with Luria, they...
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    paper by Thomas F. Anderson, Max Delbrück, and Milislav Demerec in November 1944. In 1943, Salvador Luria and Delbrück showed that bacterial mutations...
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  • Poisson distribution, Neyman type A distribution, LuriaDelbrück distribution in LuriaDelbrück experiment. For more special case of DCP, see the reviews...
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  • proteins; see the original central dogma of genetics. 1943: LuriaDelbrück experiment: this experiment showed that genetic mutations conferring resistance to...
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    Farben 1939: Intramedullary rod by Gerhard Küntscher 1943: LuriaDelbrück experiment by Max Delbrück 1953: Echocardiography by Carl Hellmuth Hertz (with Swedish...
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    straightforward and the first naming of the strain as E. coli B was by Delbrück and Luria in 1942 in their study of bacteriophages T1 and T7. The original E...
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    nuclear waste repository CADEX, the Canfranc Axion Detection Experiment Luria-Delbrück 2.0, studying cosmic radiation to evaluate its possible role in...
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  • LURIA SE, HUMAN ML. A nonhereditary, host-induced variation of bacterial viruses. J Bacteriol. 1952 Oct;64(4):557-69. PMID 12999684 Salvador E. Luria...
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    legacy lies in the use of phage in the molecular revolution in biology. Max Delbrück and the "phage group" used bacteriophages to make the discoveries that...
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    blender experiments", confirmed DNA as the genetic material in 1952; Hershey was awarded the Nobel Prize with Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück in 1969...
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  • announced their discovery of echolocation by bats. 1942 – Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria demonstrated that bacterial resistance to virus infection is...
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    previously demonstrated by Luria and Delbrück. However, many scientists failed to grasp the mathematical arguments of Luria and Delbrück's findings, and their...
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    Luria on bacteriophages. In the summer of 1949 he moved to Caltech, joining Max Delbrück's group (see Phage group). In the early 1950s, on Delbruck's...
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    Phage Group by scientists throughout the US. Among the members were Max Delbrück (1906–1981) who founded a course on bacteriophages at Cold Spring Harbor...
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  • of genetic variants in microorganisms was provided by Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück who developed the Fluctuation Test, a method to show the random...
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  • membrane protein Max Delbrück — discovered that bacteria become resistant to phages as a result of genetic mutations. Delbrück, Salvador Luria, and Alfred Hershey...
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    and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation" 1969 Max Delbrück Berlin, German Empire "for their discoveries concerning the replication...
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  • (1933–2020), Finnish medical geneticist, genetic predisposition to cancer Max Delbrück (1906–1981), German-US scientist, Nobel Prize for genetic structure of...
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