Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard sophomore is spending the month at Cape Canaveral, Fla., making last-minute adjustments to a protein crystal growth experiment to be launched on the space shuttle Endeavor, scheduled for liftoff perhaps as early as the end of August...
Proteins are essential to all life processes, and scientists need to understand how protein molecules are constructed at the molecular level, Thiessen wrote in a press release. Growing the proteins in crystal from will allow scientists to study protein structure more easily...
...offset the negative effects of gravity on protein crystal growth, Thiessen developed a method of growing protein crystals in a substance called agarose gel, which is similar in texture to Jell...
...gelatin compensates for many of the effects of gravity on crystal growth, but sending the experiment into a micro-gravity environment on the space shuttle will help crystal growth even more...
...gets better. Rich writes, "There isn't a single entertainment executive I've spoken to since Mr. Dole's speech who hasn't echoed Billy Crystal's comment during Dan Quayle's fling with 'Murphy Brown:' 'Every time they say the phrase 'Hollywood elite' you can hear the unspoken word 'Jew.'" Rather than refuting the substance of Quayle's critique, Crystal reaches for the security blanket of the anti-Semitism charge...