Language

Biotechnology & medicine

David Liu

Applies evolutionary principles to synthetic molecules by linking starting materials to DNA strands.
Year Honored
2004
Organization
Associate professor, Harvard University
Region
Global

"The strands sequences determine which of them bind to each other, and thereby direct reactions between the starting materials."

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