Word: biochemist
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...Science is a very political institution," said Phyllis Robinson, a biochemist. "For women to succeed, they have to pay attention to the game,"--the game of obtaining funding and respect and jobs--the game of dealing with the "old boy network," she said...
Funding for laboratory research has been slashed since former President Ronald W. Reagan shifted the bulk of federal funds from civil to military research in the early '80s, said biochemist Harlee Strauss...
Adele J. Wolfson, a biochemist, says the fellowship program encourages women to look at different issues in their studies...
...formidable contrarian is Bruce Ames, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley. He contends that obsessive concern with cancer-causing chemicals in foods, pesticides and toxic wastes has produced a regulatory tangle at EPA and a superfluous Superfund to clean dump sites. Government restrictions on man-made chemicals are absurdly stringent in proportion to ; their risk, says Ames. He notes that while the public panicked last spring because of trace amounts of the synthetic growth regulator Alar found on apples, many fruits contain natural carcinogens in concentrations 1,000 times as great. Observes Ames: "Eating vegetables and lowering...
...biochemist added that his research, combined with an Army report in which Laotian refugees identified bee feces as the substance they had seen, convinced Meselson that yellow rain was not a biological weapon...