Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
With the ability to inject a mouse egg with a gene that may lead to cancer, Leder says he and his staff of researchers can test various hypotheses about cancers...
...Using recombinant DNA technology, we can isolate genes which we think may be involved in cancer, we can alter them in accordance to a hypothesis we have about the development of that cancer, and then we can test the hypothesis by introducing the gene into the fertilized egg of a mouse," he continues...
This gene was then injected into a mouse egg. After the altered gene was taken up by the nucleus of the egg, the egg was placed in the uterus of a 'sham' female mouse, one which had been mated top a sterile male...
...Using the money to pay off foreign debt, as Argentina has done, seems a riskier course. Unloading national assets without attracting new capital is somewhat akin to an individual's selling his house to pay for a new automobile. When the car finally breaks down, there is no nest egg to finance...