Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given the tricky and unpolished style and the ultimate anticlimax of the plot, A Dandy In Aspic isn't half bad. Although Laurence Harvey's acting capabilities enable him to register only an emotional strain of the kind plainly treatable with low-level patent medicines advertised on television, several scenes are genuinely moving, conveying the agony of a very trapped and very unhappy man. A secret service conference between Eberlin (Harvey) and his superiors contains some masterful close shots (chiefly of Harry Andrews), and indicates the high level of photographic composition and lighting in the interiors. A later confrontation between...
...Cellular Level...
Puzzled by the changing function of the moth's old silk tubes and fascinated by the process which commits cells to their various fates, Kafatos turned to developmental biology on the cellular level. He presents his own findings in this field in two lectures in his course. He often involves his undergraduates, as well as his graduate students, in his projects. Kafatos is investigating both how cells become specialized and how they sometimes change from one specific function to another. These questions are crucial for man's understanding of the cell's nature. Furthermore, since cancerous cells are previously normal...
Kafatos points out that even if the nucleus of a fertilized egg is removed, the egg can still give rise to a very young embyro. This demonstrates that stable messenger RNA for making an embryo had been stored in the egg's cytoplasm. Storage may well be the level where the critical choice might reside in the cells of higher organisms. This is not the case for very simple cells like bacteria, where the genetic information is transcribed into RNA and immediately translated into protein. Kafatos explained that, due to the great instability of the bacterial world, bacteria...
...Kafatos was dealing with such minute amounts of particles. Finally he turned to a method for testing a particle's density devised ten years ago by Harvard's Matthew Meselson, professor of Biology. Particles are placed in a centrifugal tube containing a salt gradient, a solution with various density levels. Kafatos used a centrifuge capable of creating a gravitational field 400,000 times greater than that of the earth. The particles soon settle to the level of the solution which has the same density...