Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then chemically spliced into the DNA of another life form, usually a harmless laboratory strain of the common intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. Now the genetically reprogrammed bug has the ability to produce something new. It begins cranking out the protein and, given the proper nourishment, making millions of carbon copies of itself, each capable of producing the same protein. Though each creates only a tiny amount, the cumulative output can be substantial. Biogen's accomplishment, brought off by Swiss Molecular Biologist Charles Weissmann and his international team of colleagues, was to re-engineer E. coli so that it would produce...
...Mathilde Krim, a researcher at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: "Interferon is a kind of chemical Paul Revere." When a virus invades a cell, instead of turning out the proteins needed to sustain the cell and other parts of the body, the manufacturing plant begins to produce carbon copies of the virus. Eventually bloated with the alien bodies, the cell almost literally comes apart at the seams and dies, spilling out its cargo of new viruses, which promptly move toward healthy cells to repeat the process and spread the infection...
...stream. Other scientists are not so sure. Climatologist Stephen Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., points out that any number of factors could influence air flows, including solar flares, clouds of dust, snow on the ground and even the rising level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Adds the Weather Service's Gilman: "The westerlies behave very much like the 'average' man-there are always some abnormalities...
...Geneva and signed a pact pledging to work together against this skyborne peril. President Carter has authorized a $10 million annual outlay for a ten-year research program on acid rain, which he considers one of the two gravest environmental threats of the decade (the other: increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels...
...when the sun was setting I decided to get away from them and walk down the beach, alongside the endless row of carbon copies of the Bal Harbour Regency Spa. As I looked down the shimmering beach, I saw what appeared to be young people engaged in calisthenics They were bending over and standing up and bending over and standing up and as I got closer I realized that it was more of THEM. They were gathering shells. Fascinated, I just had to watch them for a while...