Werner Arber started this field of research in Geneva during the 1960's. He discovered restriction enzymes. Arber was studying an earlier known phenomenon, “ ...

A few years later, in 1970, Hamilton Smith not only independently verified Arber's hypothesis, but also elaborated on the initial discovery by Linn and Arber.

The first of these new enzymes, HindII, was discovered in Hamilton ('Ham') Smith's laboratory at Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1970 (29). This was ...

26 апр. 2013 г. · The first restriction nuclease characterized was isolated from Haemophilus influenzae bacteria. The enzyme (HindII) cuts at a particular site ...

In 1970, Hamilton O. Smith, Thomas Kelly and Kent Wilcox isolated and characterized the first type II restriction enzyme, HindII, from the bacterium ...

Soon after, in July 1970, Hamilton Smith and Kent Wilcox announced that they had isolated and characterised a restriction enzyme (HindII) in a second bacterial ...

Smith had discovered the first type II restriction enzyme, endonuclease R. But it was Nathans who first realized and then demonstrated just how powerful ...

Soon after the discovery of EcoB and EcoK, microbiologists Hamilton Smith and Kent Wilcox isolated and characterized the first restriction enzyme from a second ...

Using a purified restriction enzyme taken from a bacterium, in 1970, Smith was able to show that the restriction enzyme cleaves the DNA molecule in the middle ...