Arthur Pardee, professor emeritus of Biological Chemistry and
Molecular Pharmacology emeritus, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
and Harvard Medical School. "This gathering is a very high-
powered conference. The people here are some of the best people
in the field. This meeting harks back to the origins of all of
the important work in molecular biology. The pioneers, the
people who made all of this work possible, are here. In science,
you have to build one thing on top of another, and many of the
people at this conference laid the foundation for everything
that's followed." What Dr. Pardee didn't say is that he is one
of those pioneers. He invented a technique that allows
scientists to identify and study the small number of genes that
distinguish one cell Sydney Brenner, who won the Nobel prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 2002, reminisced during the opening
session about research in the early fifties and the impact of
the double helix discovery. (To watch our Webcast conversation
with Dr. Brenner, click "In those