Word: gene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard scientists reported in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that they successfully identified a single gene in a human fetus cell...
...insulin gene was obtained from a rat tumer. Humans, however, use rat insulin in the treatment of diabetes...
Although research teams in California last year achieved limited success in using gene-splicing techniques to induce bacteria to produce proteins, Gilbert's group was the first to induce bacteria to excrete a molecule as large as insulin...
Gilbert said that to insure the insulin would be excreted. the researchers inserted the insulin gene next to a gene for a protein the bacteria normally excreted. The insulin molecules rode "piggyback" on the excreted protein molecules across the bacterial membrane...
Singing in the Rain--the classic American movie musical with Donald O'Connor, Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds oozes cutness but manages not to be cloying. You know it's all Hollywood so sit back and escape. Our heroes sing and dance their way to glory, the music is wonderful, and the dance routines are geniunely original and entertaining, no Busby Berkely wedding cake horrors. You really should see if just to say you have, and besides, it's such good clean...