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The existence of mRNA was also first indicated by experiments with bacteria and phages. In 1961, Sydney Brenner, François Jacob, and Matthew Meselson used phage-infected bacteria to show that ribosomes are the site of protein synthesis and confirmed the existence of a “messenger” RNA that carries information from the DNA to the ribosome.