Word: proteins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greek or Roman averaged out to 33. When friends attempted to dissuade Cato the Younger from committing suicide at 48, he argued that he had already outlived most of his contemporaries. Even as recently as 1900, U.S. life expectancy was less than 50. Thanks to medical advances and high-protein diets, life has lengthened, and it has grown in the middle...
...High Protein. What interests researchers the most about the soybean is its high protein content (up to 50%), and this month Central Soya will begin mass production of Promine, an isolated soybean protein, at a new Chicago plant. Promine binds and emulsifies pulverized meats, such as sausages, meat loaf and bologna...
...work today producing fertilizer, farm machinery, seed and pesticides-and teaching peasant farmers how to use them. They are also marketing new foods. In Colombia. Quaker Oats is promoting a powdered cereal that contains cottonseed flour, corn meal, sorghum and yeast to add body-strengthening vitamins and protein to diets in which their lack dwarfs and weakens millions of children each year. Minneapolis-based Archer-Daniels-Midland is shipping a protein-enriched powdered-soybean beverage to countries as far off as Korea. Corn Products Co. is working on hybrid seeds to improve corn yields in South America, recently brought...
...process of protein synthesis, information is transferred from DNA, a linear sequence of nucleotides, to messenger-DNA another type of nucleic acid. The messenger is then "read" and amino acids corresponding to the "words," or codens are joined together end-to-end in a long chain to form a protein...
...known that one messenger sometimes codes for more than one protein. However, it was not understood how the cell "punctuated" the message to separate one protein from the next: the chain of the first protein must be terminated right before the first amino acid of the second protein. For a while it was thought that the only signal required was a special codon in the messenger that said "stop...