Word: bacterias
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...Antibiotics, especially the "broad-spectrum" family (best-known trade names: Achromycin, Aureomycin, Terramycin) kill so many of the harmless bacteria normally found in the digestive tract that they let the more harmful bacteria run riot. A resulting inflammation of the intestines, which may be "a deadly disease"-is usually the doctor's fault...
Terrestrial Templates. Arriving on the moon, large molecules from the bodies of dogs, men, or even from bacteria might take part in the moon's pre-life processes, acting as templates on which new molecules could form. Then scientists could never describe with confidence the true "pre-life" of the moon as it existed before the arrival of the terrestrial intruders. It would do no good to sterilize a rocket before it left the earth. Dead bacteria clinging to it, or even the molecules of the organic germicide used to kill the bacteria, might be enough to falsify...
Morris had to stick to his beliefs despite Harvard's Lost Generation. The whole thing was a good deal like discovering that yogurt is milk with more bacteria and the Communists are against child-labor. But Morris did survive, and now edits a little magazine. Sic semper tyrannus...
Morris had to stick to his beliefs despite Harvard's Lost Generation. The whole thing was a good deal like discovering that yogurt is milk with more bacteria and the Communists are against child-labor. But Morris did survive, and now edits a little magazine. Sic semper tyrannus...
...change bacteria from one true-breeding strain to another, it may have some similar effect on higher animals, including humans. If such a process is discovered, not much DNA will be needed. The entire supply of DNA that could control the heredity of the next generation of the human species (several billion individuals) could be put in a cube one twenty-fifth of an inch on a side...