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...vivid demonstration, Dowling attaches GFP protein to the promoter regions of photoreceptor genes, so that a highly fluorescent protein is produced. This serves as a marker for how the rod cells develop and, as Dowling notes, “it enables us to find mutants who have specific defects in the development of photoreceptor cells.” This marker helps to mutant behavior to specific structural defects...
When I was five years old I drew a pastel portrait in vivid purple and blue inspired by the Queen of Hearts. My work of art, which I named “Heart Lady,” now seems to me to be some sort of drag queen version of the redoubtable visage on the playing cards themselves. Her hat is just a little too far from her head and one arm kind of swims out in front, unattached to the rest of her body. My art teacher liked the drawing, though. She even put it on the cover...
...bombarded with the memories of a lost love, culminating in a cathartic screech that clears out until all that remains is the dull memory of the sensation. With only Crayola-simple synth beats and the occasional muted female vocalist at their disposal, French duo M83 paint a collection of vivid masterpieces...
...that I had forged years ago. So, while Clerks will always be safely stowed away in my laptop, I’ve decided that on most Thursday nights to come, its black-and-white video will usually be passed up for those things that are right before my eyes, vivid, in living color...
...texts - Richard Klein's wonderfully suggestive book-length essay "Cigarettes Are Sublime," and Ross McElwee's documentary film "Bright Leaves" - I want to take a calm look at smoking, and its place in the culture, from the inside - from the smoker's hot mouth, wheezing heart, sooty lung and vivid, endlessly rationalizing brain...