«I thought that with the development of molecular biological techniques, we could ask and answer important questions in the biology of aging, which researchers couldn't [answer] up to that time.» (sciencemag.org)
She was particularly keen to learn molecular biological techniques that in the mid 90s were, as she puts it, «a new era in biology.» (sciencemag.org)
First, he combined membrane protein biochemistry with molecular biological techniques to identify synaptic vesicle and other key proteins, several in collaboration with Reinhard Jahn. (laskerfoundation.org)