Word: proteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given enough packets of the supplement to last them for the next seven days. The purpose of the supplement (which comes in three flavors and supplies 300 calories a day) is not to provide nutrition but to encourage the body to burn off unnecessary fat rather than necessary protein. Otherwise the fasting might damage the heart, liver, muscles and brain...
...Moscow to try it out. Located in a corner of a large fish processing plant on the banks of the Moscow Canal, the line is a 60-ft. stretch of stainless-steel tanks, plunging pistons and gurgling agitators, ending in a conveyor belt that delivers small jars labeled CAVIAR-PROTEIN-FRESH. Although the facility turns out only 440 lbs. a day, bigger plants are on the drawing boards...
Soviet scientists had been trying to find a suitably cheap, protein-based caviar substitute for more than a decade. Most sturgeons-huge fish that can weigh more than 1,000 lbs.-are caught in the Caspian Sea. But as a result of a drop in water level and rising industrial pollution at the Russian end of the sea, the Soviet sturgeon catch has been dwindling, while Iran's production has remained steady. After experimenting with other possible bases for a caviar substitute, the Russian chemists settled on casein, a protein found in curdled milk. Explains Chemist Vladimir Tolstogouzov: "Soybean...
...thing. When the Italian government last spring auctioned off 19,000 tons of Parmesan cheese that it had bought to support falling prices, a few wholesalers snapped up practically the whole lot-in effect, cornering the market. Ever since, the speculators have released their hoard of the golden, crumbly protein-rich cheese only when supplies were scarce...
...been a lot of extinction. Things have settled down to a degree by now, just because we have lived together for so long. I'll tell you how slow evolution goes. To make the usual mutation, which means that one has changed just one amino acid in a protein, and make it become the norm for the species, takes, on the average, six million years. What we're being faced with now is the possibility not only of changing one amino acid in a protein, but of producing whole new proteins overnight across very distant boundaries. Professor Meselson just conveyed...