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...number one cited scientist in the world, according to Science Watch, is Bert Vogelstein, molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University who has investigated the activity of a tumor suppressor gene...
Someday, says Harvard molecular biologist Walter Gilbert, that diary -- the entire genetic record -- will fit on a single CD-ROM. "We look upon ourselves as having an infinite potential," he writes in The Code of Codes. "To recognize that we are determined, in a certain sense, by a finite collection of information that is knowable will change our view of ourselves. It is the closing of an intellectual frontier, with which we will have to come to terms...
Leinwand, a molecular biologist at AlbertEinstein College of Medicine, said she received 10calls in one morning from other scientists seekingways to support...
...AIDS pendulum took another big swing last week, thanks to a claim by biologist Ara Hovanessian of France's Pasteur Institute that his research team had made a major advance in understanding how the AIDS virus infects a healthy cell. The news created an instant stir, since the prestigious Paris-based institute is where HIV was first identified. Even before Hovanessian had a chance to present his findings to a Pasteur-sponsored conference and before other scientists were able to evaluate the research, the press got wind of the story and ran with it. Countless TV and newspaper accounts, including...
When Hovanessian finally stepped up to the conference podium in the Paris suburb of Marnes-la-Coquette, he faced an animated throng of 200 fellow scientists and a large contingent of reporters. But by the time the Lebanese- born biologist had finished flashing 20 graphs and charts on the screen beside him, a buzz of doubt had filled the room, and the long-standing rivalry between American and French AIDS researchers had once again surfaced...