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...think they have a better idea. They want to move one step closer to the gene by targeting the RNA molecules that transfer information from genes to proteins. And they have the perfect molecular tool with which to do it. By synthesizing strands of DNA that are the mirror image of the RNA they wish to block, researchers can produce a drug that is more specific than anything else on the market. Because it interrupts the "sense" that the cell is trying to make of the RNA molecule, the new technology is called, appropriately enough, anti-sense...
...system in the first few weeks after the AIDS virus begins its attack on the body. First you download the sequences of perhaps 10,000 genes--every A, C, G and T of the hereditary alphabet--into a computer. Then, still using the computer, you figure out what the mirror image of each sequence would be. (DNA can mirror itself as well as RNA.) The aim is to transform the mirror-sequence data into actual strands of DNA that are planted like rows of corn on the glass bed of a chip. Each strand is built up, letter by letter...
...place of ornaments, the windows have dangling pieces of mirror, metallic hangers and different types of chain...
...have left people so well nourished on irony and irrelevance that many of us have no digestive tolerance left for movies, television shows or books that want to be both funny and heartfelt. And can we be blamed when, so often, that impulse results in something like The Mirror Has Two Faces...
Phoebe Search '00 appears on stage in the first sketch called '15 Minutes." She is an actress putting on her makeup in the mirror--"getting ready," she says sarcastically, "for an evening of 'lacerating self exposure."' When she orders the house lights to come up and inspects the audience, she is not talking at us, but with us (as the play's title promises us she should). This first sketch is crucial; it reveals the intrinsic theatricality of the play. Jessica Shapiro '01 plays the show's second actress--a demented twenty-something with a plan to kill...