Word: dna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...achieve that goal, the researchers chose a vaccine, manufactured by MicroGeneSys of Meriden, Conn., that consists of genetically engineered pieces of the virus. The vaccine makers took strands of DNA that code for the outer covering of HIV and put them into another kind of virus, one that infects only moths and butterflies. The insect virus then produced AIDS proteins in addition...
...unauthorized sampling ends in discord. Tom's Diner, an a cappella tune by Suzanne Vega, had been known only to fans who owned her 1987 album, Solitude Standing. Then late last year a couple of audacious remix artists who call themselves DNA sampled Vega's voice and grafted it onto a throbbing beat. Vega liked the new version so much that she asked her record company to release it. The resulting Top Five single was the surprise...
...early 1980s, when biotech industries were just beginning to enter Cambridge, the city led the country in instituting ordinances that regulated the use of recombinant DNA technology and animal research...
Cambridge became the first city to adopt as law the Animal Welfare Act as well as guidelines for recombinant DNA research set by the National Institutes of Health...
...Great Pretender. London's respected Independent newspaper reported April 1 that Arthur Wynd, a farmer claiming to be the illegitimate son of Edward VIII's "forgotten" twin brother, was challenging Queen Elizabeth II's right to be monarch. As outrage grew over the prospect of a royal DNA test, the paper admitted that it had made up the whole thing...