Word: molecular
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...Harvard, Pak was the technology manager for the Harvard Glee Club and conducted research at the systems biology lab of Kevin J. Verstrepen, a lecturer on molecular and cellular biology...
...some types of the disorder that can be traced to specific gene defects. The most common of these - responsible for roughly 5% of autism cases - is a flaw in the X chromosome that causes a condition known as Fragile X Syndrome. Because the defect has been studied on a molecular level, it provides a unique window into understanding autism - and treating it. And that is why a paper published in this week's issue of the journal Neuron is bound to generate excitement, even though the work was done in rodents. It shows that wide-ranging symptoms of Fragile...
...only did Wald revolutionize modern molecular biology, he also profoundly changed undergraduate science education in his 43 years as a professor at Harvard...
...Wald, who passed away in 1997 at age 90, won his Nobel for discovering how vitamin A works on the molecular level to allow people to see. “Now today, we have therapies to help people who are blind,” said Wald’s former colleague, biology professor John E. Dowling...
...Frankly, they were terribly boring. I skipped zoology, cut most of it in the spring,” Dowling said. “What biochemistry was saying was that at the molecular level, all organisms are almost the same...