Word: clamp
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...sperm’s constant wriggling and rigid plasma membranes made them difficult targets to study using the traditional patch-clamp technique. The patch-clamp method uses a tiny pipette to delicately rupture the plasma membrane of cells to measure the flow of electrical currents...
Kirichok’s breakthrough came when he noticed a tiny bubble on the sperm’s tail, near the head, which allowed him to patch-clamp the sperm at that bubble...
Before casting BEYONCE, center, in his big-screen version of the musical Dreamgirls, director Bill Condon had one worry: "I needed to know she could become a restrained, sedate character," he says. Once the singer proved she could put a clamp on the amps, Condon picked Tony winner ANIKA NONI ROSE, left, and American Idol's JENNIFER HUDSON to fill out the Dreams, a 1960s group loosely based on the Supremes. None of the stars has seen the 1980s musical, but no matter. The dramas that show-biz women endure are timeless...
...spooks to keep their mouths shut. At staff meetings last week, CIA managers at the agency's Langley, Va., headquarters told employees that the leaking had got out of control and needed to stop. "They're exercised about it and are trying to do what they can to clamp down," a former senior CIA official tells TIME...
...surveillance videotapes of their home, dropped through a mail slot, announce a threat both pernicious and patient. It's time for Georges to show grace under pressure. But unlike the standard film hero, Georges is a flawed, troubled soul. Pressure brings out his shakiest instincts. As the clamp tightens, he is reminded of a long-repressed shame. Could his tormentor's motive be not simple sadism but righteous revenge...