Word: organismic
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Take for instance Pollini's performance of Chopin's first Ballade in G minor, the second item on the program after the opening Prelude No. 25. In spite of a few oddly reassuring finger slips (proof, perhaps, that Pollini is not a cybernetic organism) the interpretation seemed scarily authoritative. A...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Shortly after the Hudson Foods E. coli scare sparked a major outbreak of bad-burger paranoia, University of Wisconsin researchers have taken a major step towards the worry-free barbecue. After sifting through E. coli DNA, scientists from the school's Madison campus announced Thursday that they've...
With the new gene in hand, the researchers should be able to churn out at will the protein for which it provides the genetic blueprint. That protein, they believe, is telomerase's most important building block. "For us," exults Calvin Harley, Geron's chief scientist, "it's like having access...
The fact is that the cloning of that ewe was, at heart, a triumph of human embryology. Before Dolly, scientists believed that the DNA of a mature mammalian cell, although it contained all the genetic information required to build an entire organism, locked the cell into being what it already...
ATLANTA: Staphylococcus, the bacterium responsible for most hospital-acquired infections, is rapidly becoming resistant to the antibiotic which has kept it in check for decades, the Centers for Disease Control confirmed Wednesday. The development, first reported by the Dallas Morning News, may leave doctors without an adequate way to kill...