Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such comments warm Antioco's heart. "It's all about the customer," he says, echoing his sincere, if not totally original, guiding principle. "I've been in retailing 27 years, and I've never seen a response like this. Retailing just doesn't turn this fast...
...Kirk, dealing with the problem next meant reporting the outbreak to the county infectious-disease nurses, who in turn reported to Gayle Miller, Wyoming's chief epidemiologist. Miller and her nurses knew immediately that even six cases meant an epidemic. They began canvassing the region to locate others who had been infected, and each time they found someone sick, they began interviewing that person, looking for a common source of infection. After a week they had 26 confirmed E. coli cases in four states, and the numbers seemed likely to grow...
...mice special--and distinguishes them from barnyards of previously cloned pigs, cows and sheep--is that they were cloned from adult cells or, as the scientists call them, differentiated cells. All those earlier clones were made from fetal cells, which have no specialized function but carry the potential to turn into anything and everything the body needs...
...reliable cloning technique for an animal that has such well understood genetics and reproduces so rapidly (up to five generations in a year) means that scientists will be able to study in detail the process by which genes turn on and turn off, and thus how cells become specialized for particular jobs in the body. And if Wakayama's technique can be scaled up to larger animals--a question researchers are already making plans to answer--the research could lead to all sorts of applications...
...between parent and child alone would prevent it, and because genetics only partly determines who we are, a clone could never be exactly the same person as its parent. The offspring of a brilliant musician or a scientific genius could, depending on his or her life experience, turn out to be a great criminal. But human cloning will happen anyway--perhaps much sooner than anyone thought. And when it does, the hand-wringing of ethicists and politicians will not have been wasted...