Charles Yanofsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Yanofsky

American geneticist

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1925

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 16-Mar-2018

Profession: university teacher, geneticist, molecular biologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Charles Yanofsky (born April 17, 1925 – March 16, 2018) was an American geneticist on the faculty of Stanford University who contributed to the establishment of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis and discovered attenuation, a riboswitch mechanism in which messenger RNA changes shape in response to a small molecule and thus alters its binding ability for the regulatory region of a gene or operon.