Word: biochemist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technique under debate was the creation of Genetics Professor Stanley Cohen, and Herbert Hoyer, a biochemist from the University of California at San Francisco. In 1980 the Patent Office awarded them a patent for earlier work in gene cloning which has since brought $1.4 million to Stanford and UCSF...
...effect, the curator for this romantic restoration was Shirley A.M. Sherwood, wife of the shipping tycoon and an Oxford-educated research biochemist. "Every coach had a different story," she says, and a plaque in each car traces its provenance. The most exquisite of all is a dining car with eight frosted-glass panels handcrafted in the style of famed 19th century French jeweler Rene Lalique. The sleeping compartments, nine to twelve to a car, are marvels of compact beauty, with comfortable bench seats that convert into upper and lower berths, mahogany drop tables, and inlaid doors enclosing an ornate washbasin...
DIED. Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell, 79, biochemist and winner of a 1955 Nobel Prize for his discoveries about enzymes and their role in helping the body's cells to use oxygen; of heart disease; in Stockholm. Crippled by polio as a young man, he abandoned his plan to practice medicine and went into research instead...
Scientists also take issue with the report's argument that only large-scale industry, on the Soviet model, can mass-produce the toxins. Argues Biochemist James Bamburg of Colorado State University: "You can do it in your basement or a converted dog kennel." What most concerns scientific skeptics is that the physical samples, the crux of the Government's case, are few in number and have been gathered in haphazard fashion. Notes Ecologist Arthur Westing of Hampshire College, who chaired a panel on chemical weapons at a January meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
...range of other industries is also growing up in the region. Some say it should really be called the Siliclone Valley because of the 16 genetic-engineering companies now located there. Robert Swanson, an M.B.A. from M.I.T., and Biochemist Herbert Boyer, for example, started Genentech. Collagen Corp., a bio-medical products company in Palo Alto, makes a biological implant called Zyderm, which helps remove the effects of scars from the human skin. Companies like Coherent Radiation in Palo Alto are doing pioneering work in the industrial use of lasers...