Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Henry B. Hansmann, Harris professor of law at Yale Law School, who has criticized the universities of the Ivy League for short-changing their students in the push for endowment growth, says the banking function should not worry those who fear the corporate university...
...cows come home. So how does one become lonely in a hip, happenin' place like this? Well, don't forget, there are still those prudes like me who refuse to be swept up by the illusory excitement. Oh, I may be occasionally coerced into making an appearance at a function or two, but I do NOT enjoy it. It's against my nature to partake in artificially induced adrenaline rushes to alleviate the boredom...
...biggest problem with patenting genes is that while scientists have at least a general idea of what specific strands of genetic coding do, often it's just that--general. Investigators do sometimes succeed in isolating a single, crisp gene with a single known function. Often, however, researchers trying to map genes get no further than marking off fragmentary stretches of DNA that may be thousands of bases in length. These so-called expressed sequence tags may have real genetic information embedded in them, but determining where those nuggets are and what their structure is takes more digging...
Some researchers look forward to the day when gene therapy is used to repair damaged genes. With the new vectors, they would infect cells with small molecules that combine DNA and RNA. These hybrid molecules would seek out and bind to the defective gene, enabling it to function normally. "It would be like a repair mechanism," Wilson explains, "rather than a replacement...
...when she was two years old, Ashi began taking PEG-ADA, a newly developed drug that consists of the missing enzyme protected by a chemical sheath that enables it to function in the bloodstream for days. While the drug requires weekly injections for life at an annual cost of more than $60,000, it has enabled most of the handful of ADA-deficient children to survive. However, it provided only marginal help for Ashi, and she began to fail...