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Senior (female) member of the department, outside my office just now:

None of your namby-pamby molbiol; this is man's biochemistry.

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What was she talking about? What is man's biochemistry? Please let me know so I can enter this burly field.

As far as I've been able to tell, something about starting with 2 lbs cow lung...

Ah, I've heard of this, I think, but with the more gender neutral term "bucket biochemistry"

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