Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...achievement of Milstein and Köhler was to fuse a tumor cell with a cell that produced a specific antibody. They thus created a hybrid that not only manufactured the antibody but multiplied as rapidly as the cancer cell. The resulting culture served as a miniature factory, churning out the desired antibody. Because every cell in the culture is an identical descendant, or clone, of the original hybrid, the antibody is pure and therefore a precise instrument. Says Milstein: "It al lows you to discriminate one molecule from another." Monoclonal antibodies can home in on targets ranging from...
...South. Texas is a hybrid of the Republican West and conservative South, but the G.O.P. has not had anything like a lock on the Lone Star State: Democrats won Texas in four of the past six presidential elections. Still, the polls and almost all the local hunches give the state and its 29 electoral votes to Reagan. For one thing, although the Hispanic vote is significant (17.7%) and overwhehningly Democratic, macho Mexican-American men may resist the prospect of a female Vice President. For another, Reagan's happy-go-lucky cowboy style and his free-market economics seem to suit...
Thousands of hybrid calves have been delivered since the process was first used in the early 1970s. Veterinarian Foster hopes that last week's successful birth will presage a more secure future for the world's endangered wildlife. Says he: "This procedure could save whole species from extinction...
...common? That was the intriguing question when Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater announced that Director Peter Sellars, the theater world's newest Wunderkind, would make a musical out of Gorky's long, semipolemical play Summerfolk by adding Gershwin songs. After last week's opening of the hybrid, the answer is, alas, all too apparent: Gorky and Gershwin have nothing in common except Sellars himself...
Andrews calls Rowse's Shakespeare the "Caliban" edition, after the half-man, half-brute in The Tempest. Maynard Mack, professor emeritus of English at Yale, tends to agree. Rowse's curious hybrid, Mack says, results in a "language that was never spoken by anyone-not by Shakespeare, not by us. People want the real thing. They don't want deodorized versions of the original. They read Shakespeare precisely because they realize that he belongs to a different world and time, and they want to taste and sense that time." Since last week marked the 420th anniversary...