biochemist
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Rose was born in Buffalo, N.Y., the daughter of a biochemist and a dental surgeon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Neltner, a chemical engineer and attorney, and Maffini, a biochemist and consultant, dug into the FDA’s files on PharmaGABA to see why regulators were concerned about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
In 2016, Marcus Oliveira, a biochemist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, submitted a study on the metabolism of a tropical parasite to a mainstream open-access journal based in the United States.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 4, 2024
Akira Endo, a Japanese biochemist whose research on fungi helped to lay the groundwork for widely prescribed drugs that lower a type of cholesterol that contributes to heart disease, died on June 5.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2024
Hans Krebs, the biochemist, was breaking open cells to identify their constituent chemical components.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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According to Pappu, this work "provides an elegant solution to the challenge that many biochemists see for the condensate concept."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
Biologists as well as chemists and biochemists can be forensic scientists.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
A team of biochemists in Vancouver, British Columbia, had spent years quietly revolutionizing ways of ferrying genetic material into cells.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2022
One award went to the biochemists who discovered how to smuggle genetic material called messenger RNA into cells, leading to the development of a new class of vaccine.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 9, 2021
The cell was a beaker of chemicals, biochemists argued, a pouch of compounds bound by a membrane that were reacting to produce a phenomenon called “life.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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