Nobel Prize Stories by High School Students-. Dr. Charles M. Rice- Decoding the Viral Genome.
(This article is a summary of the full-length article Authored by Ms. Samiara Pawa, Syosset, New York, USA. It’s one of the 14 Chapters written by high school students and published in the PATH TO NOBEL book).
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“Decoding the Viral Genome” is a comprehensive account of the life and work of Dr. Charles M. Rice, an American virologist and Nobel laureate. Authored by Samaira Pawa, a high school senior with interests in psychology and computer science, the document provides an in-depth look at Dr. Rice’s journey from his early life to his groundbreaking work on Hepatitis C.
Born in Sacramento, California, in 1952, Dr. Rice developed an early interest in zoology, which led him to pursue a degree in the field from the University of California, Davis. He later earned a PhD in Biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology, where he studied RNA viruses.
Dr. Rice’s early research focused on the genome of the Sindbis virus and the Yellow Fever virus. His work on these viruses laid the groundwork for his future research on Hepatitis C. His breakthrough came when he discovered a missing sequence in the Hepatitis C virus genome, which led to…
