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Led·er·berg

(lĕd′ər-bûrg′, lā′dər-), Joshua 1925-2008.
American geneticist. He shared a 1958 Nobel Prize for work on bacterial genetics, especially the processes of conjugation and transduction.
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Lederberg

(ˈlɛdəˌbɜːɡ)
n
(Biography) Joshua. 1925–2008, US geneticist, who discovered the phenomenon of transduction in bacteria. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1958 with George Beadle and Edward Tatum
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Led•er•berg

(ˈlɛd ərˌbɜrg)

n.
Joshua, born 1925, U.S. geneticist: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1958.
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Those influential reports--which represent the insights of Joshua Lederberg, Robert Shope, and their colleagues--from the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine) Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats offered far-reaching recommendations and galvanized support for research and public health action to address the challenges posed by new, emerging, and reemerging infectious diseases.
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A long duration of hearing loss negatively affects the cognitive and phonological skills that underpin language comprehension (Classon, Rudner, & Ronnberg, 2013; Kral & Eggermont, 2007; Lederberg, Schick, & Spencer, 2013; Lyxell et al., 1998; Ronnberg et al., 2013), which might negatively influence ToM development (Slade & Ruffman, 2005).
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The famous Joshua Lederberg, Nobelist in Microbiology once said, "The biggest single threat to man's continued dominance on this planet is the virus." (20) Unfortunately for us, how very prescient he was!
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