Word: dna
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...compensate for the miscarriage of justice in the criminal trial. I can only hope that those who feel Simpson is innocent will review the evidence presented at both the criminal and civil trials. This entire ordeal was not about racism. Instead it was about photographs, footprints, fingerprints, cuts, blood, dna, shoes, diaries, domestic abuse and, most important, O.J.'s lies. ANTOINETTE ROWE Burnaby, British Columbia...
...they removed the nucleus of an unfertilized egg, or oocyte, while leaving the surrounding cytoplasm intact. Then they placed the egg next to the nucleus of a quiescent donor cell and applied gentle pulses of electricity. These pulses prompted the egg to accept the new nucleus--and all the DNA it contained--as though it were its own. They also triggered a burst of biochemical activity, jump-starting the process of cell division. A week later, the embryo that had already started growing into Dolly was implanted in the uterus of a surrogate...
...heady era. Overnight it felt as though so many aspects of life were changing: cremation became a thing of the past as franchised DNA storage-facility stocks became the afterworld darlings of NASDAQ; the cost of most medicines fell to the price of a Mars candy bar; and meat became much tastier. Lawyers experienced what can only be described as a renaissance as all dimensions of law--particularly entertainment, copyright, conveyance, deeds and titles--underwent profound rethinking...
...about it. While putting together the package of stories for this week's special report on the first cloning of an adult mammal, he was reminded that just four years ago, in another TIME cover story--one he wrote--we said the possibility of replicating an animal from the dna of fully developed cells is "far beyond the reach of today's science." The next technological step, he notes, might not be too far off. "Suddenly the possibility of cloning a new human from a dictator's nose, as in Woody Allen's Sleeper, is no longer strictly...
Last week Scottish scientists may have cloned a sheep using DNA, but it was Crick and Watson who first introduced us to DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid. Crick, a Brit, was an inveterate scientific tinkerer as a boy. Watson, a Chicago native, won his degrees in zoology. In 1953 both were researchers at Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, where they identified the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecular substance that makes possible the transmission of inherited characteristics. In 1976 Crick joined the Salk Institute and geared his energies toward exploring the workings of the brain, including short- and long-term...