Word: snips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hard enough to lose a parent--to snip the last invisible thread connecting a generation to the one preceding it. Now picture yourself standing in the house where you grew up, bickering with your siblings over the spoons in the junk drawer, sobbing over the Christmas ornaments or fighting over Daddy's good-luck charm...
...Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, is using medicine's newfound skill at sequencing genomes to figure out precisely what genes express, or turn on, when a bug first enters a host's cells. Using microarrays, also known as "DNA chips," Johnston is working to identify those genes, then snip them from a pathogen's genome and use them, or the proteins they make, as vaccines to trigger an immune response...
...from the southwest tower, commander Akbar estimated Taliban strength at "1 1/2" men. On the field below lay hundreds of dead and dying. Two embraced in death. Alliance soldiers stepped gingerly over the bodies. Some of the dead had their hands bound, and Alliance soldiers used scissors to snip off the strings. At 2:10 p.m. Akbar decided all the Taliban fighters were dead and walked down onto the field. His men, by now plainly spooked by the suicidal bravery of the Taliban, had to be forced to break cover. One wounded Taliban soldier, lying in the long grass...
...precisely the prevalence of KSG faculty in the media that, some professors say, causes FAS scholars to snip at their counterparts on JFK Street. KSG publishes a 54-page guide with biographies of its experts and their interests specifically for the media...
...many experts are all but convinced, starts with the abnormal buildup of a protein known as beta amyloid. The chief constituent of the scarlike plaques found in the brain of Alzheimer's patients, beta amyloid is made by nerve cells when beta and gamma secretase execute a one-two snip that cuts a larger precursor protein into a shorter fragment. Sometimes the fragment is 40 units long, sometimes 42. The slightly longer variant, scientists have found, is directly toxic to nerve cells. Among other things, it appears to stimulate the release of oxygen free radicals, thereby setting...