Word: dna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Netanyahu paradoxically shows the same thing, that most people are afraid of the peace process. They want it to be much slower. It's very natural, though, because for people like us to suddenly open ourselves to our enemies, to make concessions, to take risks, it's against our DNA...
...vain. See, the Inca are still pretty mysterious. And the girl--they call her Juanita--has plenty to tell the historians. About how the Inca lived. How they dressed. The crazy things they believed in. And all that ice preserved her tissues. If there's any intact DNA, the molecular-biology boys will have a field day. She's important, all right. So important that some Peruvian scientists didn't want to lend her out. Thought traveling to the States might damage the evidence. Lucky for science, it didn...
Scientists are desperately searching for solutions. They are perfecting DNA tests that will allow faster identification of the parasite and are searching for a trout species that is immune to the disease and could provide a substitute for the rainbow. Meanwhile, the Montana-based Whirling Disease Foundation, which is helping to coordinate the fight, has landed a big-name supporter in TV mogul (and part-time Montanan) Ted Turner. For streams like the Colorado and the Madison, where the wild-rainbow population is in free fall, the hope is that it may not be too late...
Gustavo De La Riva's lab boasts an imposing assortment of high-tech gear: automated machines for synthesizing DNA, centrifuges for swirling cell cultures, growth chambers for coddling delicate seedlings. There is even a particle gun that genetically transforms sugarcane embryos by peppering them with DNA-coated BBs. But what really impresses foreign visitors is the folding cot that occupies a corner of De la Riva's office. At the Centro de Ingenieria Genetica y Biotecnologia (CIGB) in Havana, Cuba, De la Riva explains, researchers strive to stay ahead of the competition by sleeping alongside their experiments...
...with tales of the latest wonder drug, interferon. Intrigued, Castro directed Dr. Manuel Limonta, a young Cuban hematologist and immunologist, to set up a facility to manufacture the protein. At first, Limonta and his small staff used human blood cells to produce interferon. But soon the advantages of recombinant DNA technology became apparent, and Limonta started making interferon in giant vats of genetically engineered yeast...