Word: biochemist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despair. Victims of the Great Terror and their friends and relatives told him of their personal ordeals. A host of young researchers volunteered to hunt for Stalin-era documents in the official archives to which Medvedev had been denied access. After the author's twin brother Zhores, a distinguished biochemist and author, was exiled in 1973, he managed to send Roy from Britain scores of important works of Western Sovietology that were unavailable in Russia...
Genome? The word evokes a blank stare from most Americans, whose taxes will largely support the project's estimated $3 billion cost. Explains biochemist Robert Sinsheimer of the University of California at Santa Barbara: "The human genome is the complete set of instructions for making a human being." Those instructions are tucked into the nucleus of each of the human body's 100 trillion cells* and written in the language of deoxyribonucleic acid, the fabled DNA molecule...
Hood is not alone in his quest for automation. That is also the goal of Columbia University biochemist Charles Cantor, recently appointed by the Energy Department to head one of its two genome centers. "It's largely an engineering project," Cantor explains, intended to produce tools for faster, less expensive sequencing and to develop data bases and computer programs to scan the data. Not to be outdone, Japan has set up a consortium of four high- tech companies to establish an automated assembly line, complete with robots, that researchers hope will be capable of sequencing 100,000 base pairs...
...seven justices voided the 1985 contract by which Biochemist William Stern and his pediatrician wife Elizabeth had arranged to pay Mary Beth Whitehead $10,000 to bear a child fathered by him through artificial insemination. Under state adoption law and public policy, the court concluded, paying women to be surrogate mothers was "illegal, perhaps criminal, and potentially degrading to women." Wrote Chief Justice Robert Wilentz: "There are, in a civilized society, some things that money cannot...
...first wanted to be a biochemist," Drayton said. "If I had gone to a British university, I would be a very frustrated biochemist. At Harvard, I was free to move towards literature and the humanities...