In The 1980’s, technology developed, advancing medical research, which furtherer doctors’ ability to explore inside the human body. In 1980, Pennsylvania State University alumni, Paul Berg, won a Nobel Prize for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA.
Paul Berg was born on June 30, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. At a young age, Berg knew that he wanted to be a scientist and went on to Pennsylvania State University where he obtained his B.S in biochemistry. About four years later, he received his Ph.D in biochemistry in Case Western Reserve University. Paul Berg then began to teach at the School of Medicine at Washington University and moved to become Professor of biochemistry at Stanford. In 1980, Paul Burg, Walter Gilbert and Fredrick Sanger shared half of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Berg started the Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA in 1975 due to the influence of his research with other scientists on recombinant DNA. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and some viruses. Recombinant DNA is a form of DNA that does not exist naturally, it is created by combining DNA sequences that would not normally occur together.
The research of DNA is very important because DNA is found in all humans, animals, in cells and it stores complex information about the way we are, inherited from our parents. DNA is a way to set people apart, it is one of a kind, it’s a persons identity. Today, DNA samples are used in the police and judicial system as a part of their fact-finding procedures, it is even use to help identify a persons biological parents.
In conclusion, without the study of DNA, our life's today will be much more difficult because DNA is a part of everyday living. It is what sets people apart from each other. DNA samples helps solve crimes and gives people an inner individuality that cannot be broken.
         
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http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2007.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/paul-berg
http://microbiology4all.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-is-dna-important.html