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Thomas Robert Cech (born December 8, 1947) is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman, for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA. Cech discovered that RNA could itself cut strands of RNA, suggesting that life might have started as RNA.
Thomas R. Cech. Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry • Director, Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology PhD Program • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute • Member, Department of Biochemistry and BioFrontiers Institute. thomas.cech@colorado.edu.
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Thomas Robert Cech (born Dec. 8, 1947, Chicago, Ill., U.S.) is an American biochemist and molecular biologist who, with Sidney Altman, was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discoveries concerning RNA (ribonucleic acid).
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Thomas Cech is a distinguished professor of biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. He studies nucleic acids and their roles in cell differentiation, gene expression and cancer.
1991. Pot1, the putative telomere end-binding protein in fission yeast and humans. P Baumann, TR Cech. Science 292 (5519), 1171-1175. , 2001. 1351. 2001. In vitro splicing of the ribosomal RNA precursor of Tetrahymena: involvement of a guanosine nucleotide in the excision of the intervening sequence. TR Cech, AJ Zaug, PJ Grabowski.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989 was awarded jointly to Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
