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This month's issue of Nature Genetics features an study by Fikes Professor of Pediatric Medicine Dr. stuart H. Orkin and several colleagues, who have deduced remarkable similarities in amino acid sequence between a human gene expression regulator, CCAAT displacement protein (CDP), and the cut protein, an important regulator of cell differentiation in fruit flies (Drosophila...
...have never been allowed to vote, no one will know until after some sort of negotiations occur whether or not Blacks will follow a given leader. Huntington neglects to mention in his discussion that Mandela remains the consistent winner of all popularity polls among South African Blacks. See Mark Orkin, Disinvestment, the Struggle and the Future: What Black South Africans Really Think (Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1986), p. 35. Huntington does not, incidentally, mention 11. Shula Marks, The Ambiguities of Dependence: Class, Nationalism and the State in Twentieth Century Natal (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press...
...theoretically possible to detect such illnesses as sickle-cell anemia and cystic fibrosis," Orkin said. "All you have to find out is what to look for in the gene...
...Orkin explained that the image produced was a row of fuzzy-looking black bands. If one of the bands is missing, the gene is defective, he added...
Before the discoverty was made, the only way to tell if a fetus was anemic was to take a blood sample. Orkin called this "a risky procedure." The new technique allows doctors to look at hemoglobin cells from the fluid around the fetus...