[Editor’s note: While best known for his discovery of DNA polymerase and his subsequent synthesis of DNA molecules, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Arthur Kornberg considers himself first and foremost ...

Arthur Kornberg compared DNA to a tape recording of instructions ... Scientists have yet to identify a polymerase that can add bases to the 5' ends of DNA strands. The fragments of newly ...

Arthur Kornberg’s discovery of DNA polymerase in the 1950s was one of the most fundamental contributions to the newly born field of molecular biology, one that allowed him to make strings of ...