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After the plasmids are separated from the chromosomal DNA in a centrifuge, they are placed in a solution with a chemical catalyst called a restriction enzyme. This enzyme cuts through the plasmids' DNA strips at specific points. It leaves overlapping, mortise-type breaks with "sticky" ends. The opened plasmid loops are then mixed in a solution with genes-also removed by the use of restriction enzymes-from the DNA of a plant, animal, bacterium or virus. In the solution is another enzyme called a DNA ligase, which cements the foreign gene into place in the opening of the plasmids...
...years to the northern arid western suburbs, with the result that the city center has become little more than a financial hub by day, a graveyard at night. Fortunately, Henry Ford II decided five years ago to preside over an enviable rebirth on the Detroit River. The big "catalyst," as Ford put it, would be construction of the $337 million Renaissance Center, consisting of shops, offices and the world's tallest hotel, all designed by John Portman, the Atlanta architect-planner-financier...
...Catastrophe as Catalyst in the Ontology of Joy, or Hurricane Parties on the Gulf Coast during Hurricane Camille; An In-Depth Study of Eleven Victims Who Elected to Stay Compared with Eleven Random Control Subjects Who Elected to Leave...
...York Representative Charles Rangel: "It helps people identify and gets conversations started, but I can't see any lasting effect." Black Literature Professor Leon Forrest at Northwestern University believes that if the show had been televised during the ferment of the '60s, it might have served as a catalyst. "But we are now in a period of some apathy and inwardness...
...myth in progress" paralleled his personal acceptance of Alexandria in literal and metaphorical terms--and how the mythical city increasingly shut out the real one below Cavafy's apartment window. Thus, imagination and memory became the primary agents of poetic re-creation, giving the real city importance as a "catalyst" for the synthesis of a poetic myth...