Word: rotbart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...space of a few hours, an unprepossessing aluminum box stuffed with test tubes can create a billion copies of what started out as a single strip of DNA. A dividing cancer cell would take at least a month to perform the same stupendous feat. "This technique," marvels Dr. Harley Rotbart, a microbiologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, "can reproduce genetic material even more efficiently than nature...
...have meningitis are treated as if they had the more lethal form. With a PCR diagnosis, those with viral meningitis could be spared unnecessary hospitalization and medication. "There is a big financial saving, a big emotional saving, and substantial reduction in risk to the baby," says Colorado's Rotbart, who is helping to develop the test...
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