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...safeguards were needed to oversee the potentially hazardous materials. In 1970, Meselson went to Vietnam in the midst of war to monitor the usage of Agent Orange. In recent years, he has been an advocate of greater government attention to Vietnam veterans exposed to the defoliant. This spring, the biochemist's name appeared on an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hit list of some 90 scientists singled out for exclusion from EPA advisory boards because of their liberal political views...
...crack her now celebrated composure, Ride was one of 35 candidates picked, six of them women. The other female "Ascans" (NASA slang for astronaut candidates) were equally talented: Judith Resnik, a doctor of electrical engineering; Anna Fisher, an M.D.; Kathryn Sullivan, a Ph.D. in geology; Surgeon Rhea Seddon; and Biochemist Shannon Lucid...
...chemical warfare. The alleged weapon: "yellow rain," a lethal spray of poisons. The Soviets have denied the charge, and a United Nations panel was unable to confirm it. Now, to the considerable embarrassment of U.S. officials, a group of respected scientists has offered a new theory. Said Harvard Biochemist Matthew Meselson last week at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: "There is good evidence that yellow rain is bee excrement...
...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...
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...