Word: virus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While determining the entire 5375 nucleotide sequence which determines the genetic make-up of the virus Phi-X174, the group at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England found that the same portions of the sequence could be 'read' in two different ways, each leading to the synthesis of a different protein...
Lawrence Pliss '77 has been doing research for his thesis at the Medical School. With the help of the work-study office, he'll get transportation money plus a little pay to isolate the virus on which he is working...
...need science to tell you we share the same DNA as the buffalo and virus. Put aside the question of "genes." Let us stand before the mirror and put aside our denim jeans and see our animal heritage. A father will quickly defend his home against an intruder without using a textbook (except as a weapon). The mother needs no more data than a whimper or tear to rush to comfort her child. We act instinctually despite sociobiology's attempts to prove...
...that is causing great concern and is restricted to quite special facilities: the so-called "shotgun" experiment with random fragments of DNA from animal cells. Two considerations seem pertinent. First, the probability that any fragment will contain a gene for a toxic product, or the genes of a tumor virus, is exceedingly low, though not zero. Second, evolutionary considerations provide an independent approach to the question. It seems exceedingly doubtful that our novel ability to introduce mammalian DNA into bacteria in the laboratory will create a truly novel class of organisms, for evolution has already had a crack...
...certified ill until they collapse on the parade ground. In general, the level of vaccine knowledge is low; when one vaccine works better than another, no one is quite sure why. This ignorance was exacerbated in last summer's rush program since researchers could not be sure that the virus they were working with was identical to the one that would strike...