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Perhaps it was simply a matter of chance, a random throw of the molecular dice. Perhaps some greater, transcendent force was at work in the earth's primeval seas. Yet from the moment of its miraculous genesis three billion years ago, life has been continually renewing and remaking itself, an...
Scientists suspected that DNA had a helper, a single-stranded chemical first cousin called ribonucleic acid (RNA). Most of the cell's RNA is found in ribosomes. These are globular bodies in the material outside the cell's nucleus that seem to be highly active centers of protein synthesis. But...
The potential of the technique is already being tested by an international research team in the treatment of two children whose hereditary inability to produce the enzyme arginase had resulted in severe mental retardation. The team infected the youngsters with a natural virus, the Shope papilloma, which contains DNA that...
The Right Form: The filmmaker must take a dialectical view of his activity-not as a final synthesis, an outcome, but as the starting point for new ideas and acts. He must vanquish the notion of irrevocable structures and definitive statements, so as to restore the people's faith in...
After a long and heated discussion, members of the Indochina Teach-In Committee, which sponsored an antiwar gathering February 26, produced a petition which represented, in the words of one member, "a synthesis of viewpoints."