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Bernard David Davis
Bernard David Davis
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A major advance was his eluciciation in the early 1950s of the complete biosynthetic pathway of aromatic amino acicis from a common precursor, shikimic acid. Further studies with mutants lee!
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penetrating analytical powers macle him a superb expositional writer, teacher, en c! author of a first-rate, inspiring textbook.
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After a brief period in aviation medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, he was assigned to work on serological tests for syphilis. He felt he needed more experience in immunochemistry and spent the next two years in the laboratories of Elvin Kabat at Columbia University and Jules Freund at the Public Health Research Institute in New York City.
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He set up his new laboratory in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Cornell Meclical College in an obscure corner, yet in a scientifically central position, near the Rockefeller Institute in New York City. The direction of his research was set by his early discovery of the penicillin methoc!
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a summer home in Woocis Hole, where Bernie taught in the prestigious physiology course from 1955 to 1960. Subsequently they spent most of their summers in Woocis Hole, en c!
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THE TUBERCULOSIS RESEARCH LABORATORY AND NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (1948-1957) I was associates!
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to give rise to the then unknown growth factor, parahyciroxybenzoic acid. The cellular origin of shikimic acid from in termecliary me tabolites clic!
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HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL (1958-1984) Bernie's work at Harvarc!
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that the incorporation of protein into membrane vesicles requires the setting up of a membrane potential. In summary, Bernarc!
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And although a systematic program, pursuing the shikimate pathway, has probably contributed most to my scientific reputation, I have tended not to pursue programs at length but to skim the cream from a variety of problems. This is a portrait of a "romantic" scientist.
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The binding of fatty acids by serum albumin, a protective growth factor in bacteriological media.
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1961 The teleonomic significance of biosynthetic control mechanisms. Cold Spring Harbor Symp.
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B E RNARD DAVI D DAVI S 1987 63 Mechanism of bactericidal action of aminoglycosides. Microbiol.
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