Sydney Brenner, who helped decipher genetic code, dies at 92
LA JOLLA, Calif. (AP) — Sydney Brenner, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who helped decipher the genetic code, has died. He was 92.
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies said Brenner died Friday in Singapore.
Brenner shared the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2002 for his contribution to work unraveling how genes control cell division. He and two colleagues, John Sulston and Robert Horvitz, traced a roundworm known as C. elegans to determine how cells divide and create something new.
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