What is "biochemists"

Usage examples of "biochemists".

He was one of a group of biochemists and genetics people who founded Helical Systems.

Many years previously, biochemists had shown that if you took a piece of animal tissue, say from the liver, cut very thin slices from it with a razor blade and immersed them in a blood-warm bath containing a proper mix of salts and glucose, the slices would go on behaving biochemically much as if they were still in the living body from which they had been removed.

Brain language has many dialects, spoken by many different sorts of biologists - physiologists, biochemists, anatomists - and handles its claims to objectivity with confidence.

That may be a matter for politicians, but certainly not for biochemists like me.

The modern state needs, for example, pamphlet-writers, poster artists, illustrators, broadcasters, lecturers, film producers, actors, song composers, even painters and sculptors, not to mention psychologists, sociologists, biochemists, mathematicians and what-not.

It was hard to make do with what he could find in the city, but it would be long before he could train biochemists to synthesize his preferred nutriment in the quantities he would require.

It will mean discarding many shibboleths, the naive molecular reductionism of the biochemists, the and behaviourism of the psychologists, but we can see the goal clearly.

They began to organize their own specialist meetings, gave themselves a new name - biochemists - and founded a new society and a new outlet to report their research - the Biochemical Society and its Biochemical Journal, today two of the most venerable parts of the scientific establishment.

In the 1950s biochemists working on the brain could be found in their ones and twos in many different biochemistry departments across the country - even in Cambridge.

To their surprise, not only did it turn out that most biochemists were reluctant to recognize the special claims of the brain over and above any other tissue, but researchers within the established brain sciences also less than enthusiastic about them.

A newly confident generation had bypassed the old battles of physiologists and biochemists and given their science a much more comprehensive name: neuroscience.

By the end of the 1950s, biochemists had available to them a number of general techniques for studying cells.

Where once biologists and biochemists had been concerned with questions about where and how cells got and used their energy, the new molecular biologists had a different language for what was important.

But what after all should a biochemistry of memory be about, and how would one know if one was discovered - that is, what sort of biochemical answer might prove convincing to both biochemists and to psychologists?

But give me the benefit of the biochemical doubt, for that is perhaps not, except amongst professional biochemists, the most important question.