Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teams on my bulletin board and lugged around my padded chair, which turned any field into the perfect place for a spectator. I admired my schoolmates' resolve and their long hours of practice, how they fit in time to go to the gym or go running between chem lab write-ups and political-science review sheets. I have always enjoyed pickup games or getting together on a lazy afternoon and playing some Ultimate Frisbee, but I could have never put in the time that high school athletes...
...what would make you unique as you lived your unexceptional life would be how long you got to live it. Nematodes in Hekimi's laboratory at Montreal's McGill University have been known to survive for 50 days. Nematodes outside the lab survive for barely nine. A human being this long-lived would be 420 years...
Although he made history when he discovered the limits on cell replication in the lab, Hayflick left a question unanswered: why the cells die. In the years following his work, biologists mapping human chromosomes looked for a gene that enforced cellular mortality, but found nothing. One thing that did catch their eyes, however, was a small area at the tip of chromosomes that had no discernible purpose. Dubbed a telomere, the sequence of nucleic acids did not appear to code for any traits. Instead it resembled nothing so much as the plastic cuff at the end of a shoelace that...
...fruit flies, has not yet found the genes responsible for his insects' longevity, but does believe genetic manipulation can be a key to prolonging life. Manipulating any senescence genes could be years--indeed, decades--away. But the alternative--subjecting human beings to the same selective mating processes applied to lab animals--is out of the moral question. "We're not going to be breeding humans the way we breed fruit flies," he says. "We have to find some less fascistic method of intervening in aging...
...Fung, of course, who later degraded the Bundy blood samples by baking them in his crime-lab truck, thus making it necessary to enlist forensic specialist Collin Yamauchi. Yamauchi, in his memoir, recalled taking Simpson's reference sample and swabbing it across the evidence swatches, thus obscuring the real murderer's blood with Simpson's dna-rich cells. "That was difficult," boasted Yamauchi, "but painting the socks with Nicole's blood was even more complicated. Since no one had seen blood on them, I had to use an airbrush to get a subtle effect...