molecular

I write in my book, “Confessions of a Funeral Director,” that behavioral epigenetics have found that our experiences can be passed down on a molecular level.

It would take a psychologist or geneticist to determine if there’s something in the minds or molecular makeup of party faithful, which could explain their varied treatment of those humbled and vanquished.

It saw E. coli go on to play a central role in many more discoveries and milestones in genetics and molecular biology.

“The Soviet Union did everything they could to invest back in science and genetics and molecular biology, but it was still stagnant,” says Angela Rasmussen, a leading American virologist now working in Canada.

“He was on the cutting edge of molecular biology,” said science historian Daniel Kevles, his friend and colleague.