Word: acidizing
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...Nobody Can Shake Me." Last week the lady Prime Minister gave the grumblers an acid piece of her mind. Standing before a large portrait of her father at a meeting of Congress Party leaders in Bombay, she declared: "Don't tell me that I don't know Nehru's ideology. We worked together. I was intimately connected with all his thinking." In any case, she did not see her role as a mere imitator of her father. "If I think it is necessary to depart from these policies in the interests of the country, I shall...
...process of protein synthesis, information is transferred from DNA, a linear sequence of nucleotides, to messenger-DNA another type of nucleic acid. The messenger is then "read" and amino acids corresponding to the "words," or codens are joined together end-to-end in a long chain to form a protein...
...known that one messenger sometimes codes for more than one protein. However, it was not understood how the cell "punctuated" the message to separate one protein from the next: the chain of the first protein must be terminated right before the first amino acid of the second protein. For a while it was thought that the only signal required was a special codon in the messenger that said "stop...
...last fall Capecchi and Jerry M. Adams, another pre-doctoral student at the Biology labs, found evidence that an initiator signal was also required, and that part one of this signal was the amino acid N-formylmethionine...
...Capecchi has found that the amount of this amino acid found in E. coli is consistent with their proposal. And within a few months, he believes, we may know if this scheme can be generalized to all systems, including mammals...