The word "molecular" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a physical structure at the molecular level or to refer to the study of molecules. Example sentence: Molecular biologists study the structure and behavior of molecules.
"We want to see how circuits change in diseases," says Boyden, "because this might help us to understand brain disorders at the circuit level, and bridge the gap between molecular psychiatry and neural circuit dysfunction".
For his movies Berry has the choice of how best to render the resulting structures – with individual atoms as spheres, or perhaps just displaying the molecular surfaces – and to colour them to enhance distinctions between different molecular parts and players (in reality, most proteins are rather colourless).
If you would like to see inside yourself in magnificent molecular detail I highly recommend his illustrated book, The Machinery of Life, which I've written about before.
It may seem odd to complain about a lack of interest in our molecular nature because people seem to be endlessly fascinated – if not obsessed – by DNA, one of the most famous biological molecules of all time.
As a chemistry student at Cambridge, he contributed to the war effort by evaluating whether the molecular properties of artificial rubber compounds – developed in the US to replace Malaysian plantation rubber – replicated natural rubber.
Brought up in Cambridge with his father, a Buddhist molecular biologist, and his mother, a singer, he went on to study the music of Cuban, Honduran and Congolese artists, traces of which feature subtly in his own music.
Detwiler called the award a "great honour" for McPhee and her Primate Molecular and Behavioral Ecology Lab.
This approach to food and drink often gets filed under "molecular gastronomy", the style pioneered by chefs such as Heston and El Bulli's Ferran Adrià.
While he may be inspired by the likes of Heston Blumenthal and Ferran Adrià, Faure brings another element to the table, his sense of theatre and showmanship, as those that choose one of the tasting menus get treated to the chef himself spectacularly preparing his mystical molecular recipes in front of them.
It doesn't matter that I know that all these molecular interactions are vital for life, that I know they have been shaped and guided by the unseen hand of evolutionary selection over billions of years, or that I'm quite comfortable with my evolutionary connections to the history of life on Earth.
Molecular virologist professor Jonathan Ball, from the University of Nottingham, said: "The data have confirmed that the GSK vaccine is well tolerated, with only a small number of people experiencing very minor side effects, which is good news.
