Word: deluca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 and costly. She and Donald Helinski, a molecular geneticist, decided to isolate the luciferase gene, cloning exact copies of it and splicing it into the genetic machinery of the common bacterium E. coli. The E. coli could then massproduce luciferase by the vat. DeLuca and Helinski accomplished this task by using...
...kind of mushroom that is not snow white, cellophane wrapped and supermarket sanitized. In the past few years, however, the succulent edible fungi that grow wild for the picking in almost every part of the country have found ever increasing acceptance in restaurant and home menus. At Dean & DeLuca, a Manhattan gourmet emporium that sells up to 100 Ibs. of fresh domestic wild mushrooms a week, Produce Purchasing Manager Lee Grimsbo notes, "People are beginning to think of them as a cooking item rather than something exotic." Patrick Terrail, owner of Hollywood's Ma Maison restaurant, had been importing...
...suggests there is some risk. For example, reports have linked drinking 1 oz. of alcohol a day to low birth weights and 2 oz. a week with an increased risk of spontaneous abortions. Findings such as these were enough to prompt the Surgeon General's warning. Says John DeLuca, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism...
Directed by Carl Gottlieb Screenplay by Rudy DeLuca and Carl Gottlieb...
...camp it up this time, with Ringo Starr as a misfit caveman and sultry Barbara Bach as his Stone Age Circe? Why not, indeed? Writers Gottlieb and DeLuca have risen-no, lowered themselves-to the challenge. Instead of screaming at prehistoric monsters, the audience squeams at a ragtag parade of sight gags and slapstick. And has a wonderful time...