What lies beyond Uranus?: Preconceptions, ignorance, serendipity and suppressors in the search for biology's secrets

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 733-740

  Beckwith, Jon ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE; RIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONFORMATION; CYTOPLASM; DISULFIDE BOND; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; DISULFIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; KNOWLEDGE; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH;

EID: 34250745342     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.076240     Document Type: Article

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