Khorana

American  

[koh-rah-nuh, kaw-] / koʊˈrɑ nə, kɔ- /

noun

1. Har Gobind 1922–2011, U.S. biochemist and researcher in genetics, born in India: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1968.

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Khorana Scientific  

/ kō-rä′nə /

1. Indian-born American biochemist. He developed one of the first artificial genes and determined the sequence of nucleic acids for each of the 20 amino acids in the human body. He shared a 1968 Nobel prize for his studies of the genetic code.

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Example Sentences

MUSICAL: Priests played traditional instruments as part of the Shikali festival at Khorana village, Nepal, Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2013

MUSICAL: Priests played traditional instruments as part of the Shikali festival at Khorana village, Nepal, Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2013

Nirenberg and Khorana also found some redundancy in the code: some of the amino acids were called up by several different three-letter combinations.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the course of their work, Khorana and his colleagues built not only the basic gene but the hitherto elusive start and stop signals at either end.

From Time Magazine Archive

An Indian-born chemist, Har Khorana, supplied crucial chemical reagents that made code breaking possible.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee