Word: biologist
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...make repairs when genetic machinery goes awry, as in such diseases as hemophilia and sickle-cell anemia, but to "improve" the species itself. There may be perils in disturbing a microbial balance that has been billions of years in the making with strange, new man-made bugs. Asks Biologist Robert Sinsheimer, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz: "Do we really wish to replace the fateful but impartial workings of chance with the purposeful self-interested workings of human will?" Even more dourly. Biochemist Erwin Chargaff notes: "If you can modify a cell, it's only a short...
...just such questions, asked by faculty members, that prompted Harvard to decide against taking part in a gene-splicing firm founded by Moleculer Biologist Mark Ptashne, even though the venture might have pumped some needed cash into the university's coffers. Stanford's president, Donald Kennedy, a biologist himself, is urging his colleagues to use "caution and deliberation" in responding to the flurry of overtures from gene-engineering firms. Reason: potential conflict of interest between pure science and the demands of their commercial employers...
...John Cairns, a prominent molecular biologist and a pioneer in cancer research, has arrived in the United States to take up his appointment as professor of Microbiology at the School of Public Health...
...settle down. Today, for our course on human behavior, we are pleased to have three distinguished guests who will present a lecture and demonstration on the way man's brain determines man's actions. The seminar will be led by Dr. Henri Laborit, the Paris physician and biologist who has documented the source of aggression in all mammals-from white rats up through the most sophisticated human beings. To illustrate his thesis with scenes from the lives of three ordinary people, we have engaged the services of Jean Gruault, who has written some of the finest and most...
...their emotions or by the whim of the historical moment. And nothing could be more natural than that Resnais, whose films have played with the real and imagined past in a medium that lives in the eternal present, should make a movie based on the work of a biologist who declares that "a living creature is a memory that acts...