Word: biochemist
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...brain's RNA and protein production are originally determined by deoxyribonucleic acid (the DNA of Biochemist James Watson's bestselling The Double Helix) that is established in the embryo by the sex cells at the time of conception. There is evidence, said Hydén, that the DNA in an old animal differs from that in a young one-and the same is true, presumably, in man. Here, Hydén opened the door a chink for a glimpse into an admittedly farout future. If a reasonably pure extract of brain DNA is injected into some animals...
...Ritual. Freddy's dirty truths and Piet's butterfly adulteries converge with the arrival in Tarbox of Foxy Whitman and her husband Ken, a biochemist preoccupied with his own second-rateness. Alone of the women, Foxy seems unafraid of what Freddy calls "the smell and hurt of love"; seven years of childless boredom with Ken have made her vulnerable. Now, though she is pregnant, she and Piet Hanema fall in love, an old-fashioned and banal assertion of life that brings down on them and the tribe the old-fashioned and banal tribulations of middle-class guilt, entrapment...
Stanford's 1959 Nobel Laureate Arthur Kornberg and Biochemist Mehran Goulian began their historic synthesis with four off-the-shelf inert chemical compounds called nucleotides-the basic building block of the DNA molecule, which controls the hereditary characteristics of every living thing. To these they added one enzyme, DNA polymerase, that is known to promote the assembly of nucleotides into the typical helix-shaped strand that characterizes the DNA molecule, and another enzyme that closes the strand into a ring...
...Biochemist Kornberg, who is executive head of Stanford's biochemistry department, is no stranger to molecule synthesis. In 1959 he shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for producing the first synthetic DNA molecule. Unlike the 1967 model, however, it was biologically inactive. He has received other awards for his work with enzymes and hopes next to learn how an enzyme like DNA polymerase actually organizes nucleotides into DNA molecules. Bio chemist Goulian worked under Korn berg as a postdoctoral fellow, and is now on the faculty of the University of Chicago Medical School. Sinsheimer is an authority on viruses...
...three most salient drug advances of the 20th century, vitamins, hormonal medicine and antibacterial "wonder" drugs, the first continues to lead the list in everyday importance. Last week Dr. Casimir Funk, the quiet biochemist whose research ranged through two of these fields and led him to the discovery of vitamins in 1911, died of cancer at 83 in Albany...