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Knowles, whose work includes enzyme research,was a pioneer as a chemist in the field ofmolecular biology. He was one of the firstscientists to conduct site-directed mutogenesis,in which a single point mutation affects the aminoacid coding sequence of proteins

Author: By Michael E. Thakur, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Knowles and Solbrig Honored for Scientific Achievements | 9/22/1998 | See Source »

NutraSweet was initially approved in themid-1970s by the FDA with a warning forphenylketoneurics, those whose bodies cannothandle the presence of phenylalanine, an aminoacid...

Author: By Jane E. Arnold, | Title: Drug Expert: FDA Tests Inadequately | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

...they filtered them out of the culture, separated them from all traces of petroleum and fed them to laboratory animals. Ihe < bugs proved to be an excellent protein concentrate, comparable in nutrient value to fish meal or soya cake. They are rich in B vitamins and lysine, the important aminoacid that is missing from protein made from grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microbiology: The Oil Eaters | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...highly complex salt made from a nitrogen compound, phosphorus and iodine. Since most doctors believe that a focus of bacterial infection is responsible for arthritis they have leaned toward vaccine treatment. Dr. Stern has long held that the most important beneficial elements in a vaccine are the aminoacids produced by bacteria. In hunting for a more potent form of aminoacid he hit upon a salt which has a nitrogenous constituent similar to that of aminoacids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Arthritis Treatment | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Stomach Cancer. Ammonia, uric acid, urea and aminoacid have recently been discovered in stomach juices. Certainly an increase of those substances is associated with cancer, and perhaps with other diseases. Dr. Lay Martin of Johns Hopkins is trying to find out, hoping that the proportions of those substances in gastric juices may help early diagnosis of stomach cancer. For some undetermined reasons cancer of the digestive tract has become more frequent recently, observed Dr. Thomas Richardson Brown of Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: College of Physicians | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

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