Jack Szostak

Specialty: Genetics

Location: Boston, United States

Tier: TITAN

H-Index: 112

Years Active: 0

Hospital Affiliations

• Massachusetts General Hospital - Professor
• Harvard Medical School - Professor
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Investigator

Key Publications

1. "In vitro selection of RNA molecules that bind specific ligands" - Nature (1990) [9663 citations]
2. "The double-strand-break repair model for recombination" - Cell (1983) [2485 citations]
3. "Synthesizing life" - Nature (2001) [1617 citations]
4. "Yeast transformation: a model system for the study of recombination." - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1981) [1497 citations]
5. "A DNA Aptamer That Binds Adenosine and ATP" - Biochemistry (1995) [1257 citations]
6. "In Vitro Selection of Functional Nucleic Acids" - Annual Review of Biochemistry (1999) [1196 citations]
7. "RNA-peptide fusions for the <i>in vitro</i> selection of peptides and proteins" - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1997) [1084 citations]
8. "Telomeres and telomerase: the path from maize, Tetrahymena and yeast to human cancer and aging" - Nature Medicine (2006) [988 citations]
9. "A mutant with a defect in telomere elongation leads to senescence in yeast" - Cell (1989) [925 citations]
10. "Isolation of New Ribozymes from a Large Pool of Random Sequences" - Science (1993) [893 citations]

Knowledge Graph Relationships

Jack Szostak is a Genetics specialist affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Authored 10 scholarly articles.