Word: celling
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Subsequently, other researchers learned that the protein had antitumor as well as antiviral properties. Though exactly how it works is still a mystery, interferon appears not only to block the uncontrolled cell division that is characteristic of cancer but also to stimulate the body's immune system to kill cancer cells. Interferon has another plus; apparently because it is produced in the body, it has none of the unpleasant and debilitating side effects that accompany conventional cancer chemotherapy...
Interferon is likely to remain expensive for some time to come. Scientists have not yet fully determined the structure of the interferon molecule and thus cannot bring down the cost by synthesizing it. Nor have they isolated the gene that orders interferon production in the cell. Once that gene is determined, Gutterman says, the technique of recombinant DNA could be used to insert it into a laboratory strain of E. coli bacteria, which would then multiply and produce interferon inexpensively and in large quantities...
...will and convenience. As we flounder from crisis to crisis during our youth, many of us imagine ourselves trapped by the self-images we have built up; we then seek physical escape, metamorphosis, new friends and intimates--anything, in short, that promises freedom from this internalized jail cell. But we often lose sight of one fundamental truth behind this search for personal redefinition--that it is a process we enter into on a voluntary basis, often on our own terms. We can pull out of this mind game at any moment, change the rules, substitute the players, whenever and however...
...Sagmalcilar prison, and its human managerie has a telling effect on him from the very beginning. The brash swagger becomes a distant memory, its place taken by a deep sense of shame and humiliation. Billy has been given a new role to play, the new kid on the cell block trying to learn the prison ropes from his more experienced fellow inmates. Everything about the new Billy suggests the chastened boy he has become. He asks about lawyers, means of escape, the life histories of the other foreigners whose follies landed them in Sagmalcilar. Slapped with a sentence of four...
Mitchell, who works in a six-member private laboratory housed in a restored Regency-style mansion in Cornwall, first proposed his ideas about energy production within living cells in 1961. Until then, scientists knew that such energy-producing processes as photosynthesis and cell respiration depended on a substance dubbed ATP (for adenosine triphosphate), which conveyed energy through the cell to power the cell's varied chemical reactions. But they had not been able to explain satisfactorily how ATP was formed. Mitchell suggested the novel theory that the key to ATP synthesis is the creation of a kind of gradient...