Would Fred Sanger Get Funded Today?

Frederick Sanger (1918–2013)

need financial support because both his mother and father had died when he was an undergraduate leaving him financially independent. As a Quaker and conscientious objector he was exempted from military service and could begin research immediately, even though the country was at war. He studied the metabolism of lysine under the direction of Albert Neuberger. Fred had a very high regard for Neub...

BIO 337 Tuesday , Feb 18 2014

Crossing boundaries: when snake science slithers into art Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art, Harry W. Greene, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-23275-4

mitochondrial DNA it emerged, to everyone’s surprise, that the genetic code is not always the same. For this work, he was awarded his second Nobel Prize in 1980, jointly with Walter Gilbert and Paul Berg. Fred Sanger never claimed to be a visionary scientist. He often told colleagues that he was fundamentally an experimentalist more interested in developing quick, easy and reliable methods for ...

A Brief (If Insular) History of the Human Genome Project

September 2010 was the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. A number of commentators, historians, and other pundits have debated the significance of the battle: was it a truly significant turning point (or tipping point in present parlance) in World War II? Similarly, historians of science and others will no doubt be mulling over the true significance of the human genome sequencing projec...

Enhancing your practice with the magnifying video scope.

The MVS (such as the Explorer and the MagnaVu) allows the dentist and team to provide quality dentistry in a more comfortable position, for longer periods of time. This is especially important for complex surgical and extensive restorative/aesthetic cases. The procedures that would be enhanced via the MVS include: diagnostic, preventative care, restorative, periodontal, endodontic, orthodontic,...