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...didn’t hear my talk? Clay is the source of life on this planet. The first DNA was formed in the crystals of clay...
...point in doing research unless you broadcast it,” said Andrew Berry, a concentration adviser in the life sciences. Five of the undergraduates presenting at the symposium also gave short talks about their research. Theodore R. Pak ’09, who spoke about his research on DNA sequence repeats, said that Harvard provides ample funding and opportunities for student research. “Whatever you’re interested in, there is generally someone working on it,” Pak said. “It’s a great time to see what you like...
Love can be a powerfulmotivator even, it turns out, when the object of your passion is a molecule. Charismatic, enthusiastic biochemist Arthur Kornberg, who won a 1959 Nobel Prize for his discovery of DNA polymerase, the enzyme needed to produce synthetic DNA, credited his research and teaching career to his "love affair with enzymes." In recent years Kornberg, whose work on DNA helped spark the biotechnology revolution, studied polyphosphate--a substance dismissed as useless by colleagues. Kornberg, who lamented the "clannishness" and lack of creativity of many in the scientific community, was convinced that it could...
...Ginger.” Some Neanderthals had red hair and pale skin, according to recent research conducted by Holger Römpler, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Evolutionary and Organismic Biology, and a host of international colleagues. Römpler and his collaborators extracted DNA from the bones of two Neanderthals, a 43,000-year-old Neanderthal from El Sidrón, Spain, and a 50,000-year-old from Monti Lessini, Italy. Looking at the cells of the Neanderthal bones, the researchers discovered a specific DNA mutation which could lead to red hair and pale skin...
...It’s his greatest legacy,” Berry said about the man who co-discovered the structure of DNA. Berry co-wrote “DNA: The Secret Life” with Watson...