Sydney Brenner passed away, the Nobel Prize for Medicine who revolutionized science with a worm

Sydney Brenner, South African scientist, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2002 and known for his revolutionary theories on cellular development Made from a worm, he died at age 92, as confirmed by the Singapore Science Agency, where the researcher had spent his last years.

Brenner revolutionized the scientific world with his theories about genetic regulation of cell death and development. His research consisted of trying to understand how the rest came from a single cell.

His works had an inseparable companion: Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode worm, barely 1 millimeter long with just over 900 cells and 300 neurons.

Brenner was born on January 13, 1927 into a poor family of Jewish immigrants. In his biography, he said he was a client of his father – a Lithuanian shoemaker who could not write but I spoke five languages including Zulu who gave him his first opportunity and what He accepted free at his kindergarten. Brenner was only four years old.

Already a teenager, he was in the library of his city, Germiston, where he had found "the source of knowledge," according to the scientist himself in the autobiography published on the Nobel Foundation's page.

I had barely 15 years old when he won a scholarship be able to enter the medical school. Brenner was then abrilliant student He quickly obtained funding to pursue his doctoral studies at Oxford University in the United Kingdom and Cambridge, where he joined the team of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

His work on worms has helped to understand the mechanism of DNA and in particular the role that RNA plays in the body (ribonucleic acid). For his research, Brenner was recognized with the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2002, that he shared with Bob Horvitz and John Sulston,

"I think that a scientist should be judged on the quality of the people that he helped produce and not on the awards or other honors that were awarded to him. Let my works speak for themselveshe said in his autobiography.

It's after receiving the Nobel Prize, at the age of 76, that he's declared "still pbadionate about scientific research and by the prospect of what's going on." it is possible to do in biology.

His last years were spent on improving scientific development at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research which announced today his death.