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Professor of Chemistry Gregory L. Verdine said the name change reflects the increase in cooperation between the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. The newly created Chemical Biology subgroup includes faculty from both departments...
Verdine also said the term "chemical biology" is preferred over "bio-chemistry" because the former term more adequately describes the integration of synthetic organic chemistry and molecular and cellular biology...
...next three classes were Chemistry 27: "Organic Chemistry of Life," with 307 students; Biological Sciences 1: "Introductory Genetics, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology," with 294 students; and Foreign Cultures 40, "The Cultural Legacy of the Ancient Near East," with 293 students...
...another in myriad ways. Why carbon, necessarily? Because, says Des Marais, "it is such a versatile chemical. It makes so many different and complex compounds. And it's the fourth most abundant element in the universe." Carbon compounds literally litter the cosmos, drifting through interstellar space in giant molecular clouds and making up a significant percentage, by mass, of comets and asteroids. Some scientists are convinced that the basic building blocks of life fell to Earth from space and that the same could easily happen anywhere...
...other language-impaired children, was enrolled in an experimental program at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, in which the kids improved their auditory skills by playing computer games. The change in Keillan and the others was so remarkable, says Paula Tallal, co-director of the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers, that even the scientists were stunned. After just four weeks of therapy, Tallal and her colleagues report in a recent issue of the journal Science, youngsters who were performing well below age level had jumped as much as two years...