Word: molecular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics are all pressed for space, and the Program has special facilities for them. A new laboratory is proposed for the rapidly growing areas of biochemistry and molecular biology...
Such trees as fragrant pine and plants such as pungent sage produce the "blue haze" that occurs during summer, even over relatively uninhabited areas of land. They emit molecular substances known as terpenes and esters, which react with sunlight to form a smog similar to the one produced by man-made pollutants. Terpenes, says Went, like some industrial and automobile pollutants, are "incredibly toxic." In some parts of the West, where they are generated by sage, they actually inhibit the growth of other vegetation...
From the first sulfa compounds of the 1930s to the latest molecular manipulation of penicillin, the wonder drugs of modern medicine have carried a high price tag. And the bill keeps getting bigger. Patients are paying it with an increased number of drug-induced diseases...
Hopkins, a specialist in molecular biology, became an assistant professor in 1962. Besides teaching Nat Sci 5 he has given lectures in Nat Sci 6, and several upper-level Biology courses...
...addition to his fellowship, Hastings is a professor at the University of Illinois. He is engaged in research on the molecular mechanism which cause fireflies and marine organisms to glow rhythmically...