Brent Johnson on virophage
…the name – it means virus eater – and neither does Brent Johnson, a virologist at Brigham Young University: “I believe the term ‘virophage’ is unfortunate because it implies one…
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Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
…address at Stanford University: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination…
Har Gobind Khorana, master decoder
…amino acids specified by each three-letter combination of bases. As long as I have been at Columbia University I have had a copy of this table on my office wall….
Popularização da ciência atraves de podcast
…week which is published on the course website. Luiza’s brief (~5 min) conversation with me can be found on the ICB (Instituto de Ciências Biomedicas) website, and it’s available in…
The dwindling American science majors
…funding of American science is an important factor. My Columbia University colleague Stuart Firestein expressed this idea in his letter to the Times: Why do science majors change their mind?…
Ferreting out influenza H5N1
…you can make’. Paul Keim, chair of NSABB, ‘can’t think of another pathogenic organism that is as scary as this one’, and Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University…