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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

EDMONDS, Mary P. (1922 – 2005)

1922 – 2005

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1971 CE

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Polyadenylic acid sequences in the heterogeneous nuclear RNA and rapidly-labeled polyribosomal RNA of HeLa cells: Possible evidence for a precursor relationship.

EDMONDS, Mary P. (1922 – 2005) NAKAZATO, Hiroshi VAUGHAN, Maurice H.

Edmonds discovered the poly-A tails on eukaryotic mRNA. The addition of a poly(A) tail to an RNA transcript, typically a messenger RNA (mRNA), is called polyadenylation. Poly(A)polymerase was first identified in 1960 …