I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine as well as the history of chemistry. — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
Synchrotron light has revolutionized the field of protein crystallography. It has made it possible to look at much larger structures with much smaller crystals. — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the lab, one step at a time, from extremely… — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami. — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
A whole host of things that we now know are drugs turn out to be plant alkaloids. — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has the effect of reducing your risk for Alzheimer's… — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, long before there was such a thing as a science of chemistry, people were fascinated by plants, because they knew… — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
Almost without exception, the talented women I have known have believed they had less ability than they actually had. And almost without exception, the… — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
If you want to lower your risk of Parkinson's disease, caffeine is protective to some extent; nobody knows why. Head injuries are bad for… — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine… — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
