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...hugely powerful. In February 2009, the Journal of Neuroscience published a paper showing that even memory - a wildly complex biological and psychological process - can be improved from one generation to the next via epigenetics. The paper described an experiment with mice led by Larry Feig, a Tufts University biochemist. Feig's team exposed mice with genetic memory problems to an environment rich with toys, exercise and extra attention. These mice showed significant improvement in long-term potentiation (LTP), a form of neural transmission that is key to memory formation. Surprisingly, their offspring also showed LTP improvement, even when the offspring...
...trained biochemist, Tsang moved to Hong Kong from her native Guangzhou in the 1950s and soon became an apprentice to one of the city's last traditional soy-sauce masters. In 1974, she struck out on her own and founded Fu Kee with the help of just two employees. The company now sells a range of Yuan's sauces in England, Australia and several Asian countries, but amazingly, the original trio of employees continues to handle all aspects of the operation. Tsang travels 90 minutes by bus to get to the factory every day, where she still concocts recipes, monitors...
Love can be a powerful motivator even, it turns out, when the object of your passion is a molecule. Charismatic, enthusiastic biochemist Arthur Kornberg, who won a 1959 Nobel Prize for his discovery of DNA polymerase, the enzyme needed to produce synthetic DNA, credited his research and teaching career to his "love affair with enzymes." In recent years Kornberg, whose work on DNA helped spark the biotechnology revolution, studied polyphosphate--a substance dismissed as useless by colleagues. Kornberg, who lamented the "clannishness" and lack of creativity of many in the scientific community, was convinced that it could...
...could sum up the categorical imperative in three sentences, but I learned much more about moral reasoning from making hard decisions in my extracurricular than I did listening to my peers’ opinions about the justice of cannibalism. Likewise, I’m not sure what my biochemist blockmates are really gaining from their humanities classes other than cocktail party conversation. But are they really paying Harvard tuition to be able to bring up the Ming dynasty on a blind date...
...When I was doing research on stem cells, my team got a lot of inquiries from IVF patients and professionals asking if they could donate embryos to generate stem cells that they could have access to," says Anna Krtolica, a biochemist and CEO of StemLifeLine, the California company offering the service. "Until now, there wasn't that option...