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Herschbach jokes that his own research in chemistry is comparable to "molecular football," an unusual comparison for a tenured chemistry professor, certainly, but Herschbach did have other career options...
...need that desire to create something," said fellow panelist Walter Gilbert, co-founder and former chief executive of Biogen Inc.; professor of molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard, and a Nobel Prize winner. "It takes a lot of arrogance to create a company...
What Turner and his colleagues have done is nonetheless something of a scientific coup, opening up a new line of attack against an ancient scourge. Rather shrewdly, they opted not to attack cold viruses head on. Instead, they resorted to a little bit of molecular camouflage that would, in effect, hide the nose from its microscopic foes...
Cold viruses have had millions of years to evolve different ways of infecting the cells that line the nasal passages. (The "rhino" of rhinoviruses comes from the Greek word for nose.) But it turns out that almost all the rhinoviruses use the same molecular doorway on the surface of the cell, a protein called ICAM-1, to gain entry to the upper-respiratory tract. Doctors have suspected since the late 1980s that if they could somehow flood the nose with decoy ICAM-1 molecules, they might be able to keep the rhinoviruses from attaching to the real thing...
...Meselson moved 3,000 miles across the nation to begin his career at Harvard as an associate professor of molecular biology...