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Karlson dipped into his tiny supply of pure ecdysone and sent a five-milligram test sample to Ulrich Clever, a young biochemist at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen. Clever had been investigating the appearance of puffy swellings on microscopic, DNA-carrying chromosomes in the salivary glands of fly larvae. The puffs appear just before the larvae mature and change into pupae, and the tiny swelling seems to cause the metamorphosis. Karlson wondered how ecdysone would affect that transformation...
...energizer drugs are technically called monoamine-oxidase inhibitors because they seem to work as antagonists to the enzyme, monoamine oxidase, which destroys some of the amines essential to normal brain function. Working with Dr. William Sacks, a biochemist, Dr. Kline reasoned that it was all very well to muzzle the destroyer, but why not speed up the repair process by supplying the system with some of those amines? They decided to try 5-hydroxy-tryptophane because of its known importance in brain chemistry...
...University also awarded degrees to George F. Kennan, the historian of Soviet foreign policy and Ambassador to Yugoslavia: Sir Maurice Bowra, the great classical scholar and critic (Doctor of Letters) and to the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Alexander Todd, Baron Trumpington (Doctor of Science...
Adenine is an undistinguished-looking chemical with a molecule made of two ordinary carbon-nitrogen rings. But to biochemists, it is one of the keys of life. It takes part in the formation of a long list of vital substances, and it is one of the five "bases" that are built into DNA and RNA, the magic nucleic acids that control the reproduction and heredity of all living organisms. Since the first life probably appeared on earth when chemicals already dissolved in sea water formed a giant molecule that had the power to reproduce itself, it is likely that this...
...women's college affiliated with Harvard. The sports-minded princess enjoys ice skating and skiing, though her great interests are music, literature and theater. Christina's yen to be a "Cliffie" took shape last December after chats in Stockholm with Harvard's Nobel Prizewinning biochemist, J. D. Watson. "She will be a real asset," said Watson. "I think she's going to be a very beautiful woman...