Molecular biology and biotechnology edited by J. M. Walker and E. B. Gingold, Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1986. pp. 340, price £25.00, $45.00. ISBN 0-85186-985-8

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-302
Author(s):  
C. A. White ◽  
J. F. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Royal Society

scholarly journals Why Governments Should Invest More in Fundamental Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Venki Ramakrishnan ◽  
Mejd Alsari
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Group Leader ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
And Function

Venkatraman ‘Venki’ Ramakrishnan is the President of The Royal Society and Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. In 2009 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ‘for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome’. In this interview he explains why governments should invest more in basic scientific research rather than simply on applied science and engineering. He also discusses interdisciplinarity, collaborations, and public engagement.

Peterhouse, The Royal Society and molecular biology

2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Warren Weaver

The term molecular biology was coined by Warren Weaver, a mathematician who was head of the natural sciences section of the Rockefeller Foundation, in his report to the president of the Foundation in 1938. The origins of the subject may be located in various places or periods, but Sir Peter Medawar used to argue that it was Sir William Bragg and W.T. Astbury at the Davy Faraday Laboratory in London who began it, when they investigated the structures of materials such as silk, wool and hair by X–ray diffraction. Others say that J.D. Bernal was the progenitor. Peterhouse, a Cambridge college, was a hothouse of the subject.

scholarly journals Sir Aaron Klug OM. 11 August 1926—20 November 2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 273-296
Author(s):  
R. A. Crowther
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Zinc Fingers ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Transfer Rna ◽  
Biological Structure ◽  
X Ray ◽  
X Ray Crystallography ◽  
Atomic Structures

Aaron Klug made outstanding contributions to the development of structural molecular biology. An early interest in viruses, stemming from work with Rosalind Franklin, prompted him to think deeply about extracting the information contained in electron micrographs. As a result, he proposed a method for making three-dimensional maps of biological specimens from the projected images given by micrographs. For this development and its application to complex molecular assemblies, he was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The recent revolution in biological structure determination, whereby atomic structures can now be determined from micrographs of frozen hydrated specimens, derives from this initial breakthrough. With colleagues, Aaron applied X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy to determine the structures and thereby understand the functions of many biological assemblies, including viruses, transfer RNA, chromatin and zinc fingers. He also made important forays into the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Aaron was director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge from 1986 to 1996 and President of the Royal Society from 1995 to 2000.

scholarly journals Current status and future challenges for molecular imaging

2017 ◽  
Vol 375 (2107) ◽  
pp. 20170023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn J. Anderson ◽  
Jason S. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Imaging ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Molecular Level ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
Society Meeting ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Living Organisms

Molecular imaging (MI), used in its wider sense of biology at the molecular level, is a field that lies at the intersection of molecular biology and traditional medical imaging. As advances in medicine have exponentially expanded over the last few decades, so has our need to better understand the fundamental behaviour of living organisms in a non-invasive and timely manner. This commentary draws from topics the authors addressed in their presentations at the 2017 Royal Society Meeting ‘Challenges for chemistry in molecular imaging’, as well as a discussion of where MI is today and where it is heading in the future. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Challenges for chemistry in molecular imaging’.

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