Word: cloninger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. I want to be a voice for working women, to get the same kind of roar from them that Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor did from their subgroups. I see myself as a role model for people left of normal, a three-dimensional woman, not a token, not a...
Chiron's initial breakthrough was to isolate a viral protein from blood samples taken from patients with non-A, non-B hepatitis. By cloning large quantities of the protein, the company was able to develop a test to detect its presence in blood. Chiron called the pathogen the "hepatitis-C...
The initial impetus for the research came from a rather oblique direction. UCSD Biochemist Marlene DeLuca has been investigating for 20 years how the firefly protein -- in this case, an enzyme called luciferase -- produces light. But the process of collecting and grinding up fireflies to extract the enzyme was laborious...
Why this sudden interest in artificial intelligence? In two words: expert systems. An expert system is an AI program that captures in computer code the knowledge and informal rules of thumb used by a particular human expert to solve a particular problem. "It's the closest thing to cloning a...
Miss Manners would approve of this creature from outer space: before invading earth, he waited to be invited. He is the first extraterrestrial to visit our planet in response to a summons from the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which since 1977 has careered through the heavens carrying recorded greetings in 55...