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9 quotes by Gregory Petsko

Gregory A. Petsko (born 1948) is an American biochemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has an endowed professorship at Weill Cornell Medical College, is an adjunct professor at Cornell University, and is a professor emeritus at Brandeis University. As of 2014 Petsko's research interests are understanding the biochemical bases of neurological diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS, discovering drugs (especially by...
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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 you.... →

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For thousands of years, long before there was such a thing as a science of chemistry, people were fascinated by plants, because they knew that plants... →

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Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the lab, one step at a time, from extremely simple... →

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Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

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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... →

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As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has the effect of reducing your risk for... →

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A whole host of things that we now know are drugs turn out to be plant alkaloids.

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Almost without exception, the talented women I have known have believed they had less ability than they actually had. And almost without exception... →

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Synchrotron light has revolutionized the field of protein crystallography. It has made it possible to look at much larger structures with much... →

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