Dear Greg,
Your comment about being a lab monk got me thinking about Neal Stephenson’s book Anathem, which describes an alternative Earth where scientists — not members of a religious order — live a cloistered life away from the demands of the outside world. In the end that cloistered world br[......]
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诺贝尔奖得主埃德蒙·费希尔1920年出生于上海。九十多年后的今天，中国已成为一个经济超级大国。同时中国正发展成为科技超级大国。仝卿属于新一代的中国科学家。当她发现朋友患上了乳腺癌，她决心要研究癌症 在以下的影片中，[......]
3. July 2011
¿Qué puede hacerse con un libro de siete kilos y medio en el que aparecen los galardonados con el premio Nobel, aparte de consultarlo y guardarlo como recuerdo en un lugar de la estanteria suficientemente amplio?
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12. October 2011
Oliver Smithies is a toolmaker. He shared the Nobel prize for discoveries that led to the development of knockout mice. Diego Bohórquez uses mou[......]
Do you think the end of theoretical physics is near?
I would like any Nobel mind to answer my query: Q: Androgen receptor is crucial to mammalian reproduction, more so because it is unisex and thus not expressed from the Y-chromosome. This receptor on which depends the survival of mammals is faced with a critical situation as of now. The androgen receptor gene itself is prone to maximum mutations of all the known receptors!The reason for this susceptibility is not evident. Was this receptor this susceptible to mutations at the outset or it is becoming mutation prone day by day? And if so, do the environmental chemicals like oestrogens, which enter our systems in some form or the other, responsible for causing epigenetic changes (methylation status) in the gene and increasing its susceptibility to mutations bringing us closer to extinction?
Sir Harold Kroto, your lecture in Lindau was well received. Why do you accept to lecture?
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