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...recounted that when asked what place Wald, as a scientist, had speaking out against the war he replied, “I am a biologist. My business is life.” According to Elijah Wald, his father felt it was his duty was to stop the war. His activism led to multiple arrests at protests, as well as making it onto Richard Nixon’s “enemy list...
Recent events have overtaken my considerations for Person of the Year. I think stem-cell pioneers James Thomson and Shinya Yamanaka are good nominees. I'm not a molecular biologist, but their discoveries with stem cells will have enormous scientific and political impact--which is very rare. Certainly, this discovery is as big and potentially even bigger than the cloning of Dolly, the sheep...
Back when scientists largely backed nurture in the nature-vs.-nurture debate, biologist Seymour Benzer found otherwise, paving the way for modern neurogenetics and discoveries in the treatment of Alzheimer's and other diseases. Inspired by the wildly different personalities of his two daughters, he found that fruit flies slept and acted differently when injected with the genes of other fruit flies--research that won him the U.S.'s richest science award, the Albany Medical Center Prize. Benzer...
...like an embryonic stem cell - capable of dividing, developing and maturing into any of the body's more than 200 different cell types. And he wasn't alone: on the same day that he published his milestone in the journal Cell, James Thomson, a pioneering University of Wisconsin molecular biologist, reported similar success in Science...
...Already, the process, called direct reprogramming, is changing the field - on several levels. Ian Wilmut, the pioneering biologist responsible for cloning the first mammal, Dolly, has announced that he will no longer use the cloning method that made him famous to generate stem cells. "Changing cells from a patient directly into stem cells has got so much more potential," he says...