Word: dna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silent, some exchanging empty pleasantries. At a signal, we lined up in single file, each of us holding a ticket and a picture ID. Before entering the room, each of us in turn was checked, issued another identification number and thumbprinted (for verification). No bone-scans or DNA samples, thank goodness. It'll be years before technology catches...
...Princeton professors won the Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for their work on pulsars, and two other researchers won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing techniques to manipulate DNA...
Mullis, 48, invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 1983, which allows scientists to mass produce millions of copies of short sequences of DNA within a couple of hours...
...Instead of having to depend on nature for isolating mutants, site directed mutagenesis gives us the power of creating mutants that we want," said Fields. "You can take certain regions of DNA and change every single base, almost at will...
...Obviously, we're delighted," said Dr. Richard O. Hynes, director for the Center for Cancer Research at MIT, upon hearing of Sharp's award. "This was a fundamental breakthrough that is essential in doing anything involving gene expression or creating recombinant DNA drugs...