Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crick, visiting professor of explained his latest genetics to a spellbound, overflow of more than 400 at yesterday. Crick and J.D. Watson Professor of Biology, are the of the Watson-Crick model of acid DNA, considered one outstanding achievements...
...said his work indicates that it of three bases--the code-- acid that determine amino if the four kinds of bases in RNA are represented by the A, B, C, and D, ABC may result of one amino acid, ACB . The nucleic acid chain which these two amino acids...
Tuberculosis patients danced in the corridors of New York City's Sea View Hospital ten years ago to celebrate their speeding recovery on new drugs, mainly isoniazid, or INH (for isonicotinic acid hydrazide). Last week in Manhattan, the National Tuberculosis Association summed up the good that isoniazid has done in a decade-and surveyed what still must be done to keep TB on the run and eventually make it as rare as smallpox or typhoid...
Resistant Strains. One early fear about isoniazid has been justified: from 3% to 6% of new TB cases are caused by isoniazid-resistant bacilli. But the multiplication of these resistant strains can usually be checked by giving isoniazid with a second drug (streptomycin, para-aminosalicylic acid or cycloserine), and occasionally switching the combination...
...Caltech has all but destroyed this romantic notion. Taking samples from the interiors of two porous nonmetallic meteorites -the sort that are supposed to contain traces of "exo-life"-he ground the material and boiled it, first in water, then in alcohol, then for ten hours in dilute sulphuric acid. After that, he simmered his sample for 22 hours in hydrochloric acid. The well cooked extract contained a rich assortment of chemicals characteristic of living organisms, including amino acids and simple sugars...