Word: biochemist
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...year, and 25% have lived more than five years. Surgeons in England have demonstrated that the procedure can work well on CF patients. One woman there has survived for 20 months with a new heart and lungs. "She is living a reasonably normal life, working at a library," reports Biochemist Robert Beall of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Bethesda, Md. Before surgery, he says, the woman "had to be carried from bed to bathtub." Especially encouraging is the fact that the woman's new lungs have not been affected by cystic fibrosis...
...private life, the professor seemed just as successful. Married in 1950 to Vina Mallowitz, the daughter of a prominent New Orleans physician and herself a dedicated biochemist, Buettner-Janusch and his wife worked together both in the field--studying lemurs in Borneo and Madagascar--and in the laboratory. They enjoyed concerts and theater; one of Buettner-Janusch's common complaints about Duke was its isolated location...
...people had given thought to the issues of surrogate birth. By last week, when the custody judgment was rendered, was there anyone still unschooled in its painful dilemmas? Even so, no one can have felt the lessons more deeply than the child's father, William Stern, a New Jersey biochemist who was awarded custody, or her mother, Mary Beth Whitehead, who lost the little girl she gave birth to as part of their surrogate agreement...
...crowded courtroom in Hackensack, N.J., listeners heard repeated last week the now familiar outlines of the story. William Stern, 40, a biochemist, and his wife Elizabeth, 41, a pediatrician, contracted with Whitehead early in 1985 for her to conceive a child through artificial insemination and carry it on their behalf. The three were brought together through the Infertility Center of New York, a for-profit Manhattan agency. The Sterns chose Whitehead, now 29, after reviewing and rejecting the applications of 300 women. Some drank. Some smoked cigarettes or marijuana. Some just did not look the part. The Sterns wanted...
...initial impetus for the research came from a rather oblique direction. UCSD Biochemist Marlene DeLuca has been investigating for 20 years how the firefly protein -- in this case, an enzyme called luciferase -- produces light. But the process of collecting and grinding up fireflies to extract the enzyme was laborious and costly. She and Donald Helinski, a molecular geneticist, decided to isolate the luciferase gene, cloning exact copies of it and splicing it into the genetic machinery of the common bacterium E. coli. The E. coli could then massproduce luciferase by the vat. DeLuca and Helinski accomplished this task by using...