Soon afterward Nirenberg had competition: Nobelist Severo Ochoa of the New York University School of Medicine set up his own lab and started deciphering the code, too.

• 不久竞争者就出现了，纽约大学医学院的诺贝尔奖得主欧乔亚建立了自己的实验室，著手解开密码，一直到1964年才停止这项工作。