Science and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Grand Prize

Science and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Grand Prize: "Jumping DNA" Discovery Explains Immune System Evolution 1 December 2000 -- By discovering jumping DNA's role in creating our modern-day immune system, a 31-year-old scientist in Stamford, Connecticut, earned this year's $25,000 Young Scientist Prize, awarded by Science and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech (APBiotech). Alka Agrawal was working on her doctoral degree at Yale University when she proved that genes called RAG1 and RAG2 carry out genetic reshuffling or "transposition" reactions in a test tube. In theory, if these genes trigger