Word: molecular
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...Monsanto Company will give the Harvard Medical School up to $23 million over the next twelve years for molecular biology research, Monsanto president John W. Hanley announced yesterday in Chicago...
...scientists are protesting the study, which examines males with an extra Y chromosome for behavioral problems, because parents' knowledge of the abnormality may cause them to induce the aggressive or criminal behavior often attributed to the extra chromosome, Jonathan R. Beckwith, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School, said yesterday...
Davison's mathematical mutant tends to support what many molecular biologists already suspect: that malignancy is apparently linked to aberrations in the RNA. The nature of the deadly change in RNA remains a puzzle-in part because scientists find the study of chemical reactions on the cellular level so enormously difficult and timeconsuming. But if suspect reactions could first be tested in a computer, using a mathematical substitute for the cell, molecular biologists could perhaps achieve in a few seconds what normally might take them months in the laboratory. Thus Davison's computerized cell may some day provide...
What makes the prospect especially hazardous is that one of the molecular biologists' favorite tools is the bacterium Escherichia coli, which inhabits every human bowel, is present in normal excrement and is highly amenable to laboratory manipulation. Its natural form is dangerous only when it runs rampant in an accidental or surgical wound or in organs other than the gastrointestinal tract. But a laboratory mutant might cause a plague of infectious disease resistant to available antibiotics. Altered DNA can be dynamite...
Gerald M. Edelman, 45, is an accomplished violinist who once chaired a symposium on the scientific basis of stringed instruments. He is better known as the discoverer of the molecular structure and composition of antibodies, the blood proteins that combat disease in the body. The 1972 Nobel laureate was born in New York City, educated at Ursinus College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Now a specialist in immunology...