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He conducted research at many prestigious universities, including Cambridge and MIT, and in 1966... (continue with current sentence)


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He became a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) in 1984.

During his postdoctoral career in the United States, he put forward the idea of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). [keep citation here] Kleppe discovered the concepts for PCR while working in the laboratory of 1968 Nobel Prize winner, Har Gobind Khorana at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Two years after he published the founding principles of PCR, Kleppe and Khorana published a "process called repair replication for synthesizing short DNA duplexes and single-stranded DNA by polymerases." Because of his initial discoveries and ideas, PCR can now be applied to forensics, genetics, and diagnostics. Recently, its most notable use is in connection to COVID-19 diagnostics, as it is able to identify bacteria and viruses.


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 * 1) Borgan, Eldrid (7 October 2020). "A Norwegian's discovery paved the way for the coronavirus tests we use today". Sciencenorway.
 * 2) Kaunitz, Jonathan D. “The Discovery of PCR: ProCuRement of Divine Power.” Digestive diseases and sciences vol. 60,8 (2015): 2230-1. doi:10.1007/s10620-015-3747-0
 * 3) "Polymerase chain reaction makes billions of DNA copies". WhatisBiotechnology.org. Retrieved 2020-12-04.