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...came from a rather oblique direction. UCSD Biochemist Marlene DeLuca has been investigating for 20 years how the firefly protein -- in this case, an enzyme called luciferase -- produces light. But the process of collecting and grinding up fireflies to extract the enzyme was laborious and costly. She and Donald Helinski, a molecular geneticist, decided to isolate the luciferase gene, cloning exact copies of it and splicing it into the genetic machinery of the common bacterium E. coli. The E. coli could then massproduce luciferase by the vat. DeLuca and Helinski accomplished this task by using standard recombinant DNA techniques developed...
...harnessing of luciferase might yield other benefits. If the firefly gene was a simple, straightforward and easily manipulated one-gene-one-enzyme system (some enzymes require the cooperative efforts of several genes), it might be possible to use it as a $ marker, or "reporter," gene. "We lucked out," says Helinski. "It did turn out to be a single gene that we could manipulate...
...some places, Hungary and Poland for example, things seem to be improving, in others, notably Czechoslovakia, they are obviously getting worse. But nontheless, references to Captive Nations just don't seem to have much meaning in a discussion of Eastern Europe. Indeed the dialogue in America on the Helinski Conference appeared very much weighted on the side of rhetoric--compassion played a relatively minor role. The result is an American political perspective toward Eastern Europe, devoid of any understanding of the dynamics that animate the lives and attitudes of those who live in the Soviet Bloc...
Clearinghouse. In Milwaukee, John R. Helinski, 36, explained to cops that he had taken his father's $130 railroad retirement check and forged it so he could repay his father the money he had stolen from...