Word: proteins
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...Biafra has banked more on winning the world's sympathy than a military victory. Last week the Biafrans had an undeniable claim to attention-and to pity. Malnutrition was killing off more Biafrans than the Federal troops who occupy most of their land. The chief killer was the protein- deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, which turns the hair to reddish gold and cruelly swells both limbs and stomachs. Workers of international relief agencies reported that as many as 3,000 Biafrans a day were dying and that total deaths might reach 2,000,000 by the end of August. Though...
Beer & Cyanide. The Biafrans have little left to eat except fruit and their customary yams and cassavas-and even these starchy staples are becoming scarcer. Unable to ship in supplies, they have for months virtually had to do without the protein-rich dried fish, beef and milk that before the war they bought outside the region. More important, the Biafrans have been driven from their richest croplands. Farming has been utterly disrupted by the war and, now that the rainy season has come, there will be almost nothing to harvest for weeks...
...said no to a British offer of $600,000 in relief funds. His reason: Britain sells arms to Gowon. Therefore, says Ojukwu, to give food at the same time would only "fatten the Biafrans for slaughter with British-made weapons." Meanwhile his countrymen need an estimated 200 tons of protein food a day to survive, and are getting only about 40. Ojukwu insists that the only way to protect Biafra's sovereignty is to fly the food in. He proposes mercy flights during the daytime, but these require the cooperation of federal Nigeria, which has threatened to shoot down...
...similar to a Cliffie going into the stacks to obtain the book herself while the second is like her using the library's call system, having the book delivered up to the reading room. In the first possibility, the actual users of the genetic information, the ribosomes, or protein-synthesizing particles, may carry messenger RNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, the cite of protein synthesis. Second, there may exist a distinct kind of particle which binds the RNA messenger, protects it, and possibly even stores it in the cytoplasm till it is needed. The existence of these hypothetical particles...
Kafatos' first step in testing the reality of informosomes was to get an idea of the composition of his messenger-carrying particles in silk worms. Ribosomes are about 50 per cent protein and informosomes, which may be similar to ribosomes, have been postulated by the Russians to contain a higher amount of protein. Chemical analysis of the particles suspected to be informosomes was impossible because 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...