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I admit that I resent running out of research money.

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People always think I'm Jewish. Actually, I'm a lapsed Catholic.

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The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.

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What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted U.S. of A., involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption.

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A functional biological clock has three components: input from the outside world to set the clock, the timekeeping mechanism itself, and genetic machinery that allows the clock to regulate expression of a variety of genes.

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Cryptochrome harnesses the energy of incoming blue light, but other molecules are probably needed to absorb light of other colors.

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In my day, you could get a faculty job with zero post-doc papers, as in the case of yours truly; but now, the CV of a successful applicant looks like that of a newly minted full professor from olden times.

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Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel.

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It is very unlikely that the genetics of homosexuality will ever devolve to a single factor in humans with such major effects as it has in Drosophila.

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In any complex organism, brain formation and function must be controlled in part by genes.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: May 3rd, 1945

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