title: Chemistry - the lingua franca of the medical and biological sciences.
abstract: Despite a large cultural difference between chemists and biologists, chemistry is becoming the common language for all the biological sciences. Now the challenge is to teach the language of scientific achievement to the public and to our representatives in Washington.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kornberg
mesh_terms: D001669:Biochemical Phenomena; D001671:Biochemistry; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D016680:Genome, Bacterial