Question

You find yourself sitting in at a table in the “Ol‘ Living Scientist Cafe” and you overhear comments from conversations going on at nearby tables. Based on your molecular biology training, you think you can figure out who is talking. Ascribe the following comments to the scientist that would be their most likely progenitor.

“We never dreamed that we might be the first two women to win a Nobel Prize in a single category, but I can’t deny that the idea that we were going to get a great publication about telomerase was what kept me going during those long, late-night experiments.”

“I always liked the term ‘Neuromorphic Engineering’. It definitely sounds good at parties. Also, the idea of creating computer chips that emulate the human brain is just awesome. But no, I don’t own an Alexa.”

“I was definitely not high when I came up with the idea of PCR. I was going surfing. Take it from me, you definitely do not want to be high when you are surfing.”

“Quorum-sensing in bacteria is like a mix of molecular biology and population genetics. You always have to figure out how many bacteria you need to get them to start to glow.”

“I can’t tell you how many people told me that you can’t make fully-differentiated fibroblasts become pluripotent stem cells. Well, it took us a few years to figure it out, but we did it.”

“What was really startling when we started studying prion diseases was how fast the prions could induce structural changes in similar proteins. We’d leave the sample alone for a day, come back, and ‘boom’, all the proteins would be in the prion form. To this day I don’t watch zombie movies.”

“When I told them that I wanted to experiment with our Qinghao, or sweet wormwood, extract on myself, they thought I was crazy. But I didn’t want to put anyone else at risk, and I knew it could really help protect people from malaria.”

“I have to say that I really hated using polyclonal antibodies. Now that I’ve figured out how to make monoclonal antibodies, everyone’s science should be a breeze!”

Answer 1

The scientists are may be as follows

Carol w. Greider & Elizabeth Blackburn who are discussing about telomerase.

Carver Mead is the person who talk about Neuromorphic Engineering, because he devolved it.

Kary Mullis talks about PCR,who discovered it.

Quorom sensing in bacteria first proposed by J. Woodland Hastings, so the person may be him who said this topic.

John B. Gordon talks about pluripotent stem cell developing.

Stanley Benjamin Prusiner is the scientist who is talking about prion disease.

Next scientist is the TuYouyou who discovered anti malarial medicine from the extract of sweetworm or quinhao.

Sir Gregory Winter discovered monoclonal antibodies so he is the scientist who talks about it.