Word: molecular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mark S. Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, said that the laboratory should be built to provide a safe place at Harvard to conduct experiments that are already being conducted elsewhere in less protected laboratories...
Jonathan Beckwith, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the Medical School, said at a forum in the First Unitarian Church that despite the disclaimers of Edward O. Wilson, professor of Zoology, his book "Sociobiology" uses genetics to defend sexism and other discriminating behavior in modern society...
...evolution of qualities that we regard as uniquely human?" This need to impose a dramatic unity on unimaginable lengths of time can also lead to inconsistencies. Ardrey says at one point that science has failed to advance our knowledge of ourselves, and elsewhere discusses the value of carbon dating, molecular genetics and the study of coprolites-fossilized feces-in revealing our prehistoric past. He asserts that the fate of Neanderthal man is unknown, and two pages later says with equal certainty that Cro-Magnon man killed him off. Finally, he notes dourly the prevalence of a current "doomsday attitude...
...Halon reacts with the molecular process of combustion and makes it absolutely impossible for that process to continue," Walsh explained...
Richard N. Goldstein, Houghton Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, who represented the Boston-area recombinant DNA group before the special advisory committee at NIH, said yesterday the dangers and risks in DNA research are "very real...