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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

Southern California soils already tend toward high alkalinity, said biochemist Garn Wallace of Wallace Laboratories, which has tested soil for 35 years.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2025

It’s been very challenging to convince people these ORFs are worth a serious look, says Ji-Young Youn, a biochemist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

From Science Magazine Nov. 24, 2024

"I was shocked at how many households were above the new 200 ppm guideline," said Gabriel Filippelli, a biochemist at Indiana University who led the new study.

From Science Daily Jun. 19, 2024

In 1869—four years after Mendel had read his paper to the Brno Society—a Swiss biochemist, Friedrich Miescher, had discovered this new class of molecules in cells.

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

Now biochemists are investigating whether mistletoe's clinginess can provide a natural alternative to synthetic glues.

From Scientific American Oct. 3, 2022

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

“Life...is a chemical incident,” Paul Ehrlich, the chemist, had once said, and biochemists, true to form, had begun to break open cells and characterize the constituent “living chemicals” into classes and functions.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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