Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The gravest threat to Gueiler's administration arises, as it usually does in Bolivia, from the armed forces. Three days after she was presented with the red, gold and green ceremonial sash of the presidency, Gueiler was handed a blunt de mand by a coalition of young pro-democratic...
James D. Watson, former professor of Biochemistry, and Francis Crick of Cambridge University in England, won the Nobel Prize in the early '60s for discovering that DNA exists as a "right- handed double helix," resembling a spiral staircase that turns clockwise.
The left-handed DNA molecule could yield new information about gene activity and could also contribute to the understanding of cancer and basic cell functions, scientists said yesterday.
Dressler said that even if the left-handed structure is not proven to exist in natural DNA molecules, the discovery of a DNA structure different from the Watson-Crick model may have important implications.
At 12:49 of the first period, B.U.'s Tim Kimball snuck a shot past Lau into the far corner. A minute later Mitch Olsen evened the score at 2-2 when he hit the back of the net for a short-handed goal.