Word: petry
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lesley Brown, 34, mother of the first "test tube" baby, and John Brown, 42, a truck driver: their second child, a girl; in Bristol, England. Name: Natalie Jane. Weight: 5 lbs. 12 oz. Like Louise, her healthy sister, who will be four next month, Natalie was conceived in a Petri dish by doctors uniting mother's egg and father's sperm. About 30 children have been born through the same technique; the Browns are the first couple to have a second separately implanted child...
...fast enough. Advanced genetic engineering and tissue-culture techniques may be the only hope. Molecular biologists and giant corporations are at last turning their attention, long concentrated on medicine and drugs, to plants. By manipulating the genetic makeup of plant cells and regenerating those cells in test tubes and Petri dishes, scientists will soon be creating plants with characteristics that might have taken a decade to develop by traditional crossbreeding techniques. The possibilities for farmers, scientists and some financiers are breathtaking: crops that manufacture their own fertilizers; plants that exude toxins to drive off pests; grains that grow in salty...
...object. and the internal one between ideas and hypotheses. She is, in effect, our tourguide--herding us past centrifuges, culture rooms, refrigerators, through a forest of pipettes, beakers and flasks and all the time trying to make the sweet smell of ethanol and the simple beauty of a petri dish come to life. Part observer part nuisance part cheerleader. Goodfield's mission is to describe the complex psychology of creative thinking...
...native of Norway, Bjorn-Larsen is a born tinkerer. While doing graduate work in bacteriology and biochemistry at Berkeley and U.S.C., he relished playing Louis Pasteur with his potions and Petri dishes. But, for financial reasons, he never finished his doctorate and eventually became an insurance broker. On the evening of April 27, 1963, Bjorn-Larsen was in bed with an aching back when he began thinking about his wife's pet peeve: girdle garters that put holes in her stockings and made them run. Recalls Bjorn-Larsen: "I knew there had to be a better way to attach...
Reagan flew on to Detroit, traditional site of Labor Day speeches by Democratic candidates, and visited nearby Allen Park to grill sausages in the backyard of Emil Petri, a steelworker (and a Republican) who had invited over 20 neighbors to meet the candidate. Many of the guests were laid-off autoworkers and steelwork ers, the kind of blue-collar Democrats Reagan hopes to lure away from Carter...