Word: lambda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Legend of the Bridge: Many years ago, in the 1960s, a Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity party turned into an argument over developing new systems of measurement. So they kidnapped one of their pledges--Mr. Smoot--and tied him to two-by-fours. They took him to the Harvard Bridge and measured the bridge in Smoots...
...recent study by Harvard researchers on genetic growth patterns has revealed how carcinogens destroy cells inhabited by a virus. Mark S. Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, explained the mechanism by which the phage lambda, a parasitical virus, grows relentlessly when exposed to cancer-causing agents and eventually destroys its host cell, Ptashne said yesterday...
...molecule in the phage lambda either remains dormant or grows uncontrollably when exposed to a car-cinogen, Ptashne said...
Last month, Ptashne announced that he had induced sythesis of a protein in a virus by using DNA. The Harvard research group applied the technique developed in the synthesis experiments to their investigation of the genetic role of the two proteins in the phage lambda. "It's all come together in the last several months," Ptashne said...
...generalized conclusions are loosely applicable to all 29 urban areas studied (among them: Atlanta, Denver and San Francisco), though detailed analyses for each have not been completed. In one "typical" but unnamed city of 1,000,000, which already buses 22% of its elementary school students, the Lambda researchers found that assigning three-fourths of the black students to predominantly white schools would require only a 2% or 3% increase in busing...