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
But a Caltech biochemist was about to deliver some good news … and some bad news.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
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
They also inhabit hot springs—places Andreas Weber, a biochemist at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, calls “time capsules that provide a window into early eukaryotic life.”
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 8, 2024
Like most of his biochemist colleagues, Miescher was also trying to classify the molecular components of cells by breaking cells apart and separating the chemicals that were released.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Since 2018, the group of McMaster engineers and biochemists behind the paper has invented and proven the viability of several packaging-based methods for detecting or halting spoilage, including:
From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 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
Thus, although virtually all biochemists, including Herman, were unable to understand the arguments of the X-ray people, there was little uneasiness.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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