Nirenberg defines cellular hexose transport in his PhD work, suggesting its key role in biology.
Years before his breakthrough on the genetic code and sharing the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, followed by important contributions in neurobiology, as a PhD student Marshall Nirenberg was the first to define cellular hexose transport, a discovery that has not been adequately recognized.
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