Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fooled them," Wilson quipped after last night's lecture, in which he gave an anecdotal description of the role of a biologist which, as an entymologist, he considers his prime academic pursuit...
Wormeck and MIT biologist Sulvador E. Luriu then sent copies earlier this month to Vice President George Bush Rep Thomas P O'Neill (D.Mass) Speaker of the House and each member of the House and Senate appropriations committees...
Frank Herbert's Dune books dealt with life, war and death on a desert planet. The White Plague (Putnam; $14.95) is set on earth in the grim present. Molecular Biologist John Roe O'Neill, an Irish American in Dublin, sees his wife and children annihilated by an I.R.A. bomb. Vengeance becomes his spur. In a home laboratory he invents a new disease and releases the plague in three nations: Ireland, because his family died there; England, because of British oppression; and Libya, because it operates training schools for terrorists. The disease spreads so quickly that life itself...
...important function. "God knows, they haven't been conserved through evolution just to make tumors," says Varmus. These genes may play a role during fetal development and then become quiescent, unless activated or altered by carcinogens or cancer viruses. They start out as "normal, good genes," explains Molecular Biologist Robert Weinberg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "but they become damaged during an individual's lifetime. When damaged, they assume a new role: directing the cell to grow abnormally...
Handler, a biologist grew up in New York City, where she attended Hunter College. She later became a dean at Hunter, developing a reputation as a successful fundraiser. She is currently beginning the third year of her UNH presidency...