Word: biochemist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each creates only a tiny amount, the cumulative output can be substantial. Biogen's accomplishment, brought off by Swiss Molecular Biologist Charles Weissmann and his international team of colleagues, was to re-engineer E. coli so that it would produce largely complete molecules of human leukocyte IF. At Harvard, Biochemist Tadatsugu Taniguchi, who first isolated an interferon gene while at the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, and Molecular Biologist Mark Ptashne seem on the verge of getting their restructured E. coli to spew out human fibroblast...
DIED. William H. Stein, 68, American biochemist who shared a 1972 Nobel Prize with a Rockefeller University colleague, Stanford Moore, for unraveling the chemical composition of ribonuclease, an enzyme that, with 124 amino acid components, was twice as complex as any previously analyzed protein; of polyneuritis, a polio-like disease that had crippled him since 1969; in New York City...