Talk:Peter G. Schultz

Retraction in SCIENCE

Yes, this is an embarrassing retraction, but one should guard against exaggerating its importance. Although the glycosylated amino acid is important for medical applications, it's still just one amino acid; as of now more than FIFTY unnatural amino acids have been successfully incorporated into genetic codes using Schultz's method, and documentation for all except the retracted one IS available. SingingZombie (talk) 15:07, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

UPDATE: Someone has removed the section on the retraction. Hey, I was not calling for the section on the retraction to be REMOVED; just saying it's not the end of his career; he's still on the short list for the Nobel Prize. SingingZombie (talk) 17:11, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

"Someone", it should be noted, with an IP address belonging to The Scripps Research Institute. --192.82.128.76 (talk) 18:29, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

The content was unsourced, and not exactly neutrally phrased. It was correctly removed per WP:BLP, irrespective of who did it. Rockpocket 06:10, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Bioassays, soluble molecules, microcultures

Described apparatus for high-throughput bioassays of many compounds on small cell-colonies in microwells, 1536 wells per plate. Included PNAS reference which is on very topical subject: de-specializing cells, inducing pluripotency without using genetic material like DNA, RNA, retrovirus etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.243.185 (talk) 05:41, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Question for Wiki experts

Hi. When I start to type "Peter G. Schultz" into the entry space, the entry-finishing software completes the name but also identifies him as an "American Geneticist". He is not a geneticist! (Dictionary.com defines a "geneticist" as an expert in genetics, and defines "genetics" as the study of heredity in living organisms. Schultz' work has nothing to do with heredity or heritable traits, although he is expanding the genetic code to make nonsense-codons code for unnatural amino acids in the protein vocabulary.) He's a chemist who develops new methods for screening molecular libraries and studies the chemistry of certain biological macromolecules.

Any chance of changing the identification from "American Geneticist" to "American Chemist"?

I know it's a nitpick but it's driving me nuts. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 02:23, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Retractions

Previously, I was inclined to agree with User:SingingZombie that a single retraction could be omitted from the Wikipedia article, since lots of scientists have to issue retractions for lots of different reasons which do not always reflect badly on the scientist. But now Schultz's retraction record is up to four retracted articles, all published in top-rank academic science journals. One of Schultz's lab personnel is being stripped of his PhD by his graduate school because of the problem with his work! Moreover, two of the retractions concerned a method which, if it had worked, would have been very important: a way to incorporate pre-glycosylated amino acids into a cell's genetic protein-vocabulary, enabling us to place glycosylations at any desired site of a protein. This would have greatly facilitated the study of the role of glycosylation in protein function which is a very important, topical, and challenging area of protein chemistry and biology. Not just an ordinary retraction. So, much as I admire Schultz's work, I think we have to put a section on his retractions into the article. Sad! HandsomeMrToad (talk) 12:21, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

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