Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found that preinsulin had another precursor, prepreinsulin, which like other proteins has a signal sequence that triggers secretion or transport across the membrane...
...study published in this week's Nature, Rapoport explains that the channel can transport proteins in two directions...
...latex gloves, the large outfits are jolting a sleepy industry. At AMR's command center atop an Aurora high-rise, five dispatchers hunched in front of consoles track 60 ambulances with the aid of satellites. In Oregon, where the firm also has a lock on most of the nonemergency transport business, AMR last year added Kaiser's 343,000 members to its client base, reflecting that industry's consolidation too. Boasts chief operating officer George DeHuff, "Big providers can see the benefits of dealing with...
...ambulance giants fight for valuable hospital and HMO contracts, they must now fend off a backdraft of sorts from public fire departments eager to protect their jobs and budgets. In most communities, fire fighters answer 911 calls. But after treating and stabilizing victims, they often hand off the transport of the injured to a private ambulance--as in Aurora--which collects the entire bill, upwards of $1,000 for a seriously injured patient...
Like O'Keefe, Loewen grew up in the funeral industry. He helped transport bodies to and from his father's Manitoba funeral home. "It was," he would later testify, "a great way to grow up in a small country town." He launched the Loewen Group in 1985. Last year, just a decade later, the company had nearly $600 million in revenue, more than 90% of it from its U.S. operations...