Word: molecular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committed $23 million to a joint project with the Harvard Medical School to find new means of combatting cancer. For four years, at both Boston and Monsanto's campus-like home in suburban St. Louis, scientists from the college and the company have been unwinding the secrets of "molecular messengers," which control the growth of tumors. Besides money, Monsanto, like many another firm, has quite a bit of technical expertise to offer. Says Hanley: "We can, in fact, bring something to the party...
...Gene Fusions to Study Protein Secretion in E. coll--Jonathan R. Beckwith, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, main lecture hall, Biological Labs...
...former cultural correspondent for TIME in London, Judson spent nearly a decade immersing himself in molecular biology's opaque literature, learning its special language and nuances and, above all, interviewing its major figures. As he describes his visits with scientists in the lab, listening to their rambling explanations and even lunching with them at their homes, he seems to record every murmur and move, even the labels of the wines on their tables...
Much has been made of molecular biology's great promise: cures for cancer, the correction of hereditary diseases...
Judson wisely avoids such hyperbole. Even a generation after molecular biology's birth, its midwives are usually experimenting with nothing higher on the evolutionary ladder than the intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. Judson's characters are not primarily interested in great practical payoffs but in a grand intellectual quest: solving puzzles, under standing nature rather than dominating it. The game is science for science's sake...