"I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists."
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Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist whose groundbreaking work in molecular biology fundamentally transformed our understanding of genetics. Born on January 13, 1927, in Germiston, South Africa, Brenner's remarkable career included co-discovering the role of messenger RNA in protein synthesis and advancing research on the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, which became a vital model organism in genetics. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002, his legacy endures through his contributions to science and his advocacy for scientific education and collaboration.
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"In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions."
Sydney Brenner
"I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code."
Sydney Brenner