Cataracts Facts. 1  Cataracts are changes in clarity of the natural lens inside the eye that gradually degrade visual quality. The natural lens sits behind the colored part of the eye (iris) in the area of the pupil, and cannot be directly seen with the naked eye unless it becomes extremely cloudy.
Hershey and Chase. Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase did an Experiment in 1952 that was called the Hershey-Chase Experiment. This experiment set out to determine what composed the genetic material of a bacteriophage. A bacteriophage is a virus that infects a bacterium.
Glaysher bit. Then, two months before he started his PhD program with the University of Edinburghâs CERN team, the LHCâs ATLAS and CMS experiments announced they had found the Higgs boson. âIt was a bit sad,â Glaysher says. âThey waited 50 years to find it, and couldnât wait the extra two months until I was part of the party.â