The United States’ National Institute of Health has awarded the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot an additional grant of $210,000 over the next three years to continue research into the nature of the living cell. A previous grant from the National Institute of Health contributed toward the work in that area by a group of four Israeli scientists headed by Prof. Uriel Z. Littauer. They recently announced the successful synthesis of a molecule of transfer ribonucleic acid. The team’s findings will be presented next month at a symposium on nucleic acid synthesis in viral infection, to be held at the University of Miami.
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