Word: helix
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James R. Killian Jr., retired president of M.I.T.: The five indispensable books are Darwin's Origin of Species, Freeman Dyson's Disturbing the Universe, Ernst Mayr's Growth of Biological Thought, the works of Thomas Huxley, James Watson's Double Helix, René Vallery-Radot's Life of Pasteur, Eric Ashby's Technology and the Academics: An Essay on Universities and the Scientific Revolution and Sir WiLliam Cecil Dampier's History of Science. And the Bible. And Fowler's Modern English Usage. Also Spengler's Decline of the West, Henry Adams...
...know recombinant DNA, interferon, double helix and such, But gene splicing makes it very clear I sure don't know so much...
...application to agriculture will require a great deal of capital, to say nothing of enormous technological advances, before any plants and products can be turned out in sufficient quantities to transform the world. Says James Watson, who with Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize for unraveling the double-helix structure of DNA and ultimately making recombinant DNA possible: "Let's put it this way: I wouldn't buy gene-splicing stock for my grandmother...
...totem of America then chops at this wooden monument like a pecking bird. He hunts for seedy answers to those pregnant questions only poets ask. He wants to know who we are, where we have come from, what we look like to ourselves. He whirls in a magical helix around America's spine and in the end he finds that America has no spine, that the loons and the lake are a mirage, that the Appalachian Trail leads nowhere...
There will almost certainly be efforts to get around the patents of others through slight variations. Says James Watson, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer in the 1950s of the double-helix structure of DNA: "It will be awfully hard to show uniqueness, to prove that one man's microbe is really different from another's." That, says J. Leslie Glick, president of Genex Corp. in Bethesda, Md., could lead to modifying bacterial strains mainly for "defensive reasons, a waste of research." Lawyers especially stand to gain if patenting life becomes their way of making a handsome living. Quipped...