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Biochemistry

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In Memoriam: Dan Tawfik
Anthony Futerman
[long_description] The biochemist Dan Tawfik passed away in May 2021 at age sixty-five and yet the height of his powers. Dan’s scientific research focused on proteins and, in particular, on enzyme evolution. Recently he had begun working on the most difficult challenge in biochemical evolution: reconstructing the metabolic pathways that may have led to the emergence of the first functional proteins.
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A Personal Recollection
Richard Roberts
[short_description] The biochemist Kary Mullis will be remembered as the inventor of the polymerase chain reaction, a revolutionary method for copying segments of DNA. Richard Roberts fondly recalls time spent together.
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The New View of Proteins
Tyler Hampton
[short_description] Dan Tawfik’s biochemistry lab investigates the deepest questions in molecular evolutionary biology. But the answers may be beyond our grasp. Inference reviews Tawfik’s laboratory and literature.
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