EDITOR
Charles R . Bertsch, Manager, Editorial Production
HANS NEURATH, University of Washington AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, PUBLICATIONS DIVISION
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Milton P. Gordon, University of Washington Edmond H. Fischer, University of Washington (on leave) David R. Morris, University of Washington (Acting) William W. Parson, University of Washington
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EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Paul D. Boyer, University of California, Los Angeles Roger D. Cole, University of California, Berkeley Minor J. Coon, University of Michigan Medical School Joseph S. Fruton, Yale University David K. Fukushima, Montefiore Hospital, New York Gordon G. Hammes, Cornell University William F. Harrington, Johns Hopkins University John J. Holland, University of California, La Jolla William P. Jencks, Brandeis University Elwood V. Jensen, University of Chicago Irving M. Klotz, Northwestern University Henry A. Lardy, University of Wisconsin Albert L. Lehninger, Johns Hopkins University Peter Lengyel, Yale University Fritz A. Lipmann, Rockefeller University Alton Meister, Cornell University Medical College, New York Kivi Moldave, University of California, Irvine Mary Jane Osborne, University of Connecticut William D. Phillips, Du Pont Experimental Station Rodney R. Porter, Oxford University William J. Ray, Jr., Purdue University Phillips W. Robbins, Massachusetts Institue of Technology Harold A. Scheraga, Cornell University S. Jonathan Singer, University of California, San Diego Earl R. Stadtman, National Heart Institute Charles C. Sweeley, Michigan State University Paul O. P. Ts'o, Johns Hopkins University Bert L. Vallee, Harvard Medical School Bernard Witkop, National Institutes of Health
SECRETARY OF THE BOARD
Warren E. C. Wacker, Harvard Medical School
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