Word: molecular
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Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, who will be one of the researchers, said yesterday the research could lead to the synthesis of such human hormones as insulin, which is presently taken from cows and pigs...
Died. Jacques Monod, 66, Nobel Prize laureate for his research into the mechanics of heredity, which led him to claim that man is a cosmological accident; of blood disease; in Cannes. A Resistance fighter, molecular biologist and, since 1971, director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, he helped solve the riddle of how cells develop into unique structures like hair or the heart. In his bestselling 1970 book Chance and Necessity, he argued that there is neither god nor grand design in the universe: "Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation". His critics found his philosophy...
Matthew S. Meselson and Ruth Hubbard, professors of biology, and Mark S. Ptashne, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, also will speak at the meeting, Pattullo said...
...elected professors are Alastair G.W. Cameron, professor of Astronomy; Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace; John E. Dowling '57, professor of Biology; and Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology...
...Richard N. Goldstein, assistant professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Medical School, said the risks of the experiments are unknown and that he has "serious reservations" about the laboratory's ability to contain the organisms...