If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.

Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.