Word: cellular
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Tosteson participated in research on cellular functions at Duke University School of Medicine, where he served as chairman of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology from...
...chemical similarity to visual purple could help scientists better understand the basic processes of vision and could offer new insights into cell biology. "All living cells need to pump ions across their cell membranes," says Stoeckenius. "It seems to me that we are close to discovering certain basic cellular functions...
Without the understanding of cellular functions, explains De Duve, most modern drugs and disease control would not be possible. "We are sick because our cells are sick. We cannot make ourselves well unless we know what is happening inside our cells." In fact, most human diseases-from some hereditary disorders to such still incompletely understood ailments as cancer-are traceable to cellular malfunctions. The work of this year's Nobel laureates helps point the way toward their correction...
Davison's mathematical mutant tends to support what many molecular biologists already suspect: that malignancy is apparently linked to aberrations in the RNA. The nature of the deadly change in RNA remains a puzzle-in part because scientists find the study of chemical reactions on the cellular level so enormously difficult and timeconsuming. But if suspect reactions could first be tested in a computer, using a mathematical substitute for the cell, molecular biologists could perhaps achieve in a few seconds what normally might take them months in the laboratory. Thus Davison's computerized cell may some day provide...
...taught Biology 2, "Cellular, Developmental and Functional Biology"; Biology 14, "Genetics"; and Biology 301, "Mycology and Fungal Genetics". His book, "Genetics of Sexuality in Higher Fungi," summarized 20 years of research on the physiology and reproduction of Schizophyllum, a mushroom-like fungus...