4A Β I Ο C Η E Μ Ι S T R Y

EDITOR

HANS NEURATH, University of Washington

ASSISTANT EDITORS

Milton P. Gordon, University of Washington

Edmond H. Fischer, University of Washington

BOARD OF ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Eric G. Ball, Harvard Medical School

Clinton E. Ballou, University of California, Berkeley

Herbert E. Carter, University of Illinois

Herman Eisen, Washington University

Edmond H. Fischer, University of Washington

Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, University of California, Berkeley

Joseph S. Fruton, Yale University

David K. Fukushima, Montefiore Hospital, New York

Gordon G. Hammes, Cornell University

Rollin D. Hotchkiss, Rockefeller Institute

Eugene P. Kennedy, Harvard Medical School

Henry A. Lardy, University of Wisconsin

Fritz A. Lipmann, Rockefeller Institute

Alton Meister, Tufts University School of Medicine

Marshall W. Nirenberg, National Institutes of Health

Howard K. Schachman, University of California, Berkeley

Esmond E. Snell, University of California, Berkeley

Herbert A. Sober, National Institutes of Health

Bert L. Vallee, Harvard Medical School

Harland G. Wood, Western Reserve University

SECRETARY OF THE BOARD

Warren E. C. Wacker, Harvard Medical School

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