Word: celle
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...train has other advantages. Even with the seat in front of me reclined, I was able to cross my legs and reach for the bag below me easily. Cell phones are allowed (either a plus or a minus, depending on whether you own one). And we weren't slaves to our seats. The train I took was hopping, with folks hustling to and from the dining...
...form includes questions that the average person wouldn't ask his best friend, let alone a stranger. Since the forms began going out last winter, hundreds of thousands of indignant citizens have flooded the bureau's Washington headquarters with messages of angry protest. In an age of computer hackers, cell-phone eavesdroppers, Internet "cookies" and surveillance satellites, much of the public lacks faith, it seems, in the bureau's guarantee of total confidentiality. Like draft-card burners from the 1960s, some privacy-loving Americans have even vowed to pay the government's $100 penalty for nonfiling rather than satisfy Uncle...
...European women in thong bikinis are invisible to Tom Winkler. He's lying on a chaise longue by the overflowing pool at the Mondrian hotel, picking at the papaya from his $12.50 fruit plate. Remembering to return a call to his actress girlfriend, he pulls out his stainless-steel cell phone. What Winkler needs is a personal assistant...
Dolly was once an awfully lonely sheep. When the famously cloned animal made headlines in 1997, she was the only mammal ever to be manufactured from the cell of an adult donor. Since then, the clone ranks have swelled, with mice and cattle also toddling out of the labs. Last week cloning technology took another step forward when an international biotechnology company announced that it had created a litter of five genetically identical piglets, and that it had a pretty good idea of how they could one day be used: as organ donors for ailing humans...
What causes porcine organs to be rejected so quickly is a sugar molecule on the surface of pig cells that identifies the tissue as unmistakably nonhuman. When the immune system spots this marker, it musters its defenses. PPL scientists recently succeeded in finding the gene responsible for the sugar and knocking it out of the nucleus of a pig cell. Their next step would be to extract that nucleus, insert it into a hollowed-out pig ovum and insert the ovum into the womb of a host sow. The sugar-free piglet that was eventually born could then be cloned...