scholarly journals Profiles of women in science: Panayiota Poirazi, Research Director, Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research and Technology‐Hellas (FORTH)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana L. Helmreich
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Research Director

Feature

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 20-57
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Cancer Research ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Liver Transplant ◽  
Cancer Vaccine ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Dreaded Disease ◽  
Cervical Cancer Vaccine ◽  
Research Director

Taking One for the Girls – Meina Lee tells APBN why boys might want to consider taking the cervical cancer vaccine. Catching Cancer Early By Dr Achim Plum. APBN speaks with Dr Axel Ullrich, research director of the Singapore OncoGenome Project at A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology and director of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, who sheds more light on the cancer challenges ahead. APBN speaks to Professor Soo Khee Chee, director of National Cancer Center, about the much dreaded disease. APBN chats with Dr Susan Lim, who is widely known in Asia and Singapore for being the first surgeon to have performed a successful liver transplant. Cancer Research in Asia Pacifc by Serene Ong.

Behind the Laboratory Doors

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Schindler
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Women Scientists ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Bacterial Genetics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Faculty Positions ◽  
Joshua Lederberg

This chapter compares Esther Lederberg’s role with that of other notable women scientists whose achievements exhibited creative laboratory skills. Esther’s career peaked in 1956 when the Society of Illinois Bacteriologists jointly bestowed the Pasteur Medal on the Lederberg couple. Usually, Joshua Lederberg was the public face of their research program. Esther’s place was behind the laboratory doors where she managed the lab and performed the experiments. For over a hundred years, this was the typical arrangement for women and their male associates. Prestigious faculty positions and accolades were unattainable for so many women in science. For Esther and many of her female colleagues, the thrill of discovery was enough reward. Esther valued the camaraderie of the brilliant personalities that made up the circle of pioneering researchers. Stanley Falkow called her a kind of Boswell of bacterial genetics. Her extensive photographic collection is a who’s who of molecular biology, many as their younger selves.

Electron Microscopy in Molecular Biology

1967 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Cecil E. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Noise Level ◽  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Shadow Casting ◽  
Electron Image ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Very High

The visualization of organic macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, viruses and virus components has reached its high degree of effectiveness owing to refinements and reliability of instruments and to the invention of methods for enhancing the structure of these materials within the electron image. The latter techniques have been most important because what can be seen depends upon the molecular and atomic character of the object as modified which is rarely evident in the pristine material. Structure may thus be displayed by the arts of positive and negative staining, shadow casting, replication and other techniques. Enhancement of contrast, which delineates bounds of isolated macromolecules has been effected progressively over the years as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 by these methods. We now look to the future wondering what other visions are waiting to be seen. The instrument designers will need to exact from the arts of fabrication the performance that theory has prescribed as well as methods for phase and interference contrast with explorations of the potentialities of very high and very low voltages. Chemistry must play an increasingly important part in future progress by providing specific stain molecules of high visibility, substrates of vanishing “noise” level and means for preservation of molecular structures that usually exist in a solvated condition.

An introduction to the themed issue on RNA biology in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 863-866
Author(s):  
Zhe Wu
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Fortieth Anniversary ◽  
Rna Biology ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Education In China

Abstract The year 2019 marked the fortieth anniversary of the Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (CSBMB), whose mission is to promote biomolecular research and education in China. The last 40 years have witnessed tremendous growth and achievements in biomolecular research by Chinese scientists and Essays in Biochemistry is delighted to publish this themed issue that focuses on exciting areas within RNA biology, with each review contributed by key experts from China.

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