Dr Kevin Spencer, the consultant biochemist at Harold Wood, who developed Oscar along with specialists from King's College Hospital, London, said the test was relieving anxieties for many pregnant women.
But last year Emma Whitelaw, a biochemist at the University of Sydney, demonstrated that epigenetic traits could be inherited in mice.
Christopher Voigt, a biochemist at the University of California, San Francisco, has already built a device from biological parts: a bacterium programmed to seek out cancer tumors.
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The Uruguay-born biochemist scoured Nature and Science, and regularly brainstormed with an entourage that included Nobel laureates Paul Berg, Arthur Kornberg, and Joshua Lederberg the latter two now deceased.
To commercialize his ideas, Khosla founded (nasdaq: KOSN - news - people ) in Hayward, Calif. with Daniel Santi , a former biochemist from the University of California, San Francisco.
Dana Carroll, a biochemist at the University of Utah who has licensed some research to Sangamo, has run fruit fly experiments using zinc finger nucleases in which the flies' genomes were cut in unintended places apart from the target area.
In the 1950s Anthony Allison, a British biochemist, observed that Africans who carry a single copy of the genetic mutation that causes sickle-cell anaemia are protected against malaria.
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The recipe was developed by the late Joseph Owades, a biochemist in Sonoma, Calif.
Now, the study in Nature by Pere Puigserver , a biochemist at Johns Hopkins University, has not only made that connection, but helped explain exactly what role the gene plays in mammals and possibly people.
We went down the hall to a conference room where Jonathan McIntyre, a biochemist who came to PepsiCo from DuPont, and several staff members had set up the tasting.
Cerovive stems from the work of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation biochemist Robert Floyd, who has spent his career probing how toxic free radicals may cause various diseases of aging.
Trained as a biochemist, Beall, 57, joined the foundation in 1980 from the National Institutes of Health.
Thanks to Rihab Taha, a British-educated Iraqi biochemist, nicknamed Dr. Germ by the U.N. inspectors, Saddam still has the best biological expertise in the region.
"We are very intrigued by this, " says Genentech biochemist Mark Sliwkowski, who cautions that the precise role of the immune system in the response to antibody drugs is unclear.
More to the point, according to Professor Bruce Ames, an eminent biochemist at UC-Berkeley, our foods contain 10, 000 times more natural, endogenous pesticides the result of plants evolving with their own natural defenses against fungi and predators than synthetic ones, but many of the latter are actually less harmful.
" Adds Medical University of South Carolina biochemist Bruce Hollis: "I often say its skeletal effects are the least interesting thing we know about it.
The new vaccine was dreamed up almost a decade ago by Anthony DeVico, now a 44-year-old biochemist at Gallo's institute.
One of the first hints that leukotrienes might be involved in heart disease came over a decade ago, when Harvard Medical School biochemist Charles Serhan examined coronary plaque samples from 12 angioplasty patients.
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