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...very existence of the essential vitamin D, or "sunshine vitamin," was not established until the present century, but its imprint upon history goes back a million years or more. According to a theory now elaborated by Brandeis University Biochemist W. Farnsworth Loomis, it is because of the human body's need to take in a certain amount of vitamin D, but not too much, that the human species has developed into three principal racial groups distinguished by skin color and loosely called black, yellow and white...
...between the scientific and nonscientific communities -the "two cultures," as British Physicist and Author C. P. Snow calls them -politicians, educators, TV producers and scientists themselves have been trying to bridge it. No emissary to the nonscientific world has been more successful than a highly articulate biochemist named Isaac Asimov...
...little research that 90% or more of today's knowledge about inflammation has been gained in the past ten years. Not until a fortnight ago did the International Inflammation Club convene its first symposium. The club is an amorphous group with no officers or formal organization. Conceived by Biochemist John C. Houck of Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C., it drew together 80 researchers as guests of the Upjohn Co. at Brook Lodge in Michigan...
...isolate the represser, Biophysicist Walter Gilbert and Biochemist Benno Muller-Hill decided to work with a species of simple bacteria called Escherichia coli, which have a healthy appetite for lactose, a sugar found in milk. The scientists knew that when lactose was available, the bacteria cells produced an enzyme that broke the sugar down into two simpler sugars that the cells could use. When only other nutrients were present, however, the amount of this enzyme was drastically reduced; a repressor apparently turned off the gene that controlled its production...
...principal reason Harvard biochemists offer for a separate department is the difficulty they now have getting biochemists appointed to tenured faculty positions. A biochemist must be approved either by the Chemistry faculty or the Biology faculty, before the Corporation considers his appointment. Although no one wants to talk about specific cases, the result is clear: too few biochemists are receiving tenure...