Joan Folkes

Joan P. Folkes (born 1927) was a scientist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956.[1] Along with Ernest Gale, she demonstrated that nucleic acids have an organizing or controlling role in protein synthesis. Folkes and Gale were also the first to demonstrate cell-free protein production in a crude cell extract.[2] This discovery has led to the birth of Cell-free protein synthesis|cell-free protein expression, a rapidly growing field in synthetic biology.

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1. ↑ "Nomination archive". NobelPrize.org. 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2022-01-04.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
2. ↑ Gale, E. F.; Folkes, J. P. (1954-06-26). "Effect of nucleic acids on protein synthesis and amino-acid incorporation in disrupted staphylococcal cells". Nature. 173 (4417): 1223–1227. doi:10.1038/1731223a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 13176417.

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