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Maxine Frank Singer (born February 15, 1931) is an American molecular biologist and science administrator. She is known for her contributions to solving the genetic code , her role in the ethical and regulatory debates on recombinant DNA techniques (including the organization of the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA ), and her ...
Maxine Frank Singer (* 15. Februar 1931 in New York City) ist eine US-amerikanische Biochemikerin und Molekularbiologin.
Maxine Singer Singer helped decipher the human genetic code—the chemical language that DNA uses to create the proteins that keep our bodies going and growing. One of her special concerns is recombinant DNA technology.
Maxine Singer joined the National Institutes of Health in 1956 and began decoding DNA and RNA, investigating how codes that replicate and insert themselves along DNA chains contribute to certain genetic diseases. From 1980 to 1987, she was chief of the Laboratory of Biochemistry at the National Cancer Institute.
Maxine F. Singer was born to first generation Americans in Brooklyn, N.Y. Singer, who credits a high-school chemistry teacher with inspiring her to pursue science, studied biology and chemistry at Swarthmore College and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Yale University in 1957.
Maxine Singer was propelled into science policy making and advocacy in the early 1970s by her association with scientists who were launching the new field of genetic recombination and whose work raised questions about scientific responsibility and public safety that had to be debated and resolved.
Learn about the career of renowned molecular biologist Maxine Singer by closely examining two portraits in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.
