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...life happened to form elsewhere in the solar system first, muses biochemist Gerald Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, then it's at least possible that something more complex could have been included in the cargo--not necessarily a living organism but a molecular precursor that could have given life on Earth "a kind of kick start...
While he says he is not terribly concerned with the type of random violence that has seemed prevalent in the U.S. recently, Pfeiffer Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Robert R. Rando says the possibility of more focused groups taking action is enough to make him cautious with his mail...
...being struck by a heavy object. Rivets that loosened or popped off will be examined to determine the direction and force of the pressures to which they were subjected. FBI lab chemists will do a chemical analysis of the metal to see if there are embedded nitrates, the molecular building blocks of all known explosives...
...sure, I started out a nice Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey. But with puberty came doubt. I became the Voltaire of Schuyler Avenue, the scourge of poor Rabbi Engel, who endured my contempt for his gullibility. By the time I graduated from high school, I was a budding molecular biologist, and though I continued fasting on Yom Kippur, it had become an act of solidarity with my heritage, not obedience to a God I believed...
...years, Amos was the Presley Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School. A distinguished scholar of microbiology, Amos did important research in sugar metabolism...