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biochemist

American  
[bahy-oh-kem-ist] / ˌbaɪ oʊˈkɛm ɪst /

noun

biochemists plural
  1. a specialist in or student of biochemistry.


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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

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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