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...London later this month at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Most of Gorbachev's policy shapers have been replaced by unknowns from the Central Committee's ideology department. Before their arrival, some of these new advisers purportedly helped draft a secret memorandum last summer that became the blueprint for the January military crackdown in Lithuania. The classified memo surfaced in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a new liberal daily newspaper that has been tolerated despite the general ebbing of glasnost that has occurred in the state-run electronic media...
Most cell biology is currently dominated by Lamarckian evolutionary theory--which suggests that cells respond to changes in their environments--and the belief that cell death takes place according to a "blueprint...
Editor's Note: The debate over how to ace Harvard exams without actually studying has raged for decades. On June 12, 1950, Donald Carswell '50 published his blueprint for success "Beating the System," for which he received the Dana Reed Prize in 1951 for excellence in undergraduate writing. The Crimson has reprinted it as a service to readers ever since. In 1962, the infamous, anonymous "Grader's Reply" first appeared...
...tiny fraction of breast-cancer cases. But the malevolent genes they pass down through the generations are beginning to yield important clues to all breast malignancies. "Cancer," declares celebrated molecular biologist James D. Watson, "is a disease of the DNA," the master molecule that encodes the genetic blueprint for every living cell. Tumors develop as the result of rearrangements in DNA, specifically in the genes that govern cell growth...
Bravest New Surgery Medical science, which can do remarkable things to repair the human body, took a giant step by daring to tinker with the original blueprint. In the first authorized use of gene therapy, a four-year-old girl with a rare and deadly enzyme deficiency received genetically engineered cells that could control her illness. So far, she is doing well, and scientists hope eventually to treat other illnesses the same...