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...undergraduates' address. While the president listened intently to all non-student speeches, she ignored [Megan L.] Peimer '97 and [Corinne E.] Funk '97 as they spoke, instead reading the contents of a folder she carried on-stage with her, observers said." Readers wondered if "unnamed observers" was really code for "Crimson reporter trying to stir up trouble...
...scientists in the '70s had begun working on a method called recombinant DNA technology, in which they replicated specific genes by placing them in host cells grown in the laboratory. In 1983 scientists at the biotechnology company Amgen isolated the specific bit of DNA that carried the code for producing erythropoietin. They placed the gene in a minuscule bacterial structure called a plasmid, inserted the plasmid into the ovary of a hamster and began to produce synthetic erythropoietin. In 1989 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of recombinant human erythropoietin under the name Epoetin alfa. The process...
Developing successful drug treatments for these disorders depends not only on the discovery of the appropriate disease gene but also on the identification of the protein that it controls. Each human gene consists of a coded chemical "message" that directs the cell to produce a particular protein necessary either for body structure or for a metabolic process. After researchers have zeroed in on a gene and learned its code sequence, they are able to identify its protein and eventually discover the larger role this protein plays in the body...
Some neurotransmitters induce other neurons to fire; others dampen neuron activity. In either case, once the chemical locks on to the receptor, it sets in motion a cascade of chemical events in the receiving cell. This ongoing dance of neurotransmitters and receptors is the intricate code that brain cells use to communicate with one another...
...beginning last fall he started quietly pulling the levers. Hundreds of exhausted programmers streaming back from the front lines of the Windows 95 coding effort found themselves thanked, paid and returned to the front to battle Netscape. Line managers killed million-dollar projects and refocused entire divisions in the space of hours. In one instance, the company decided it needed to jump-start an effort to develop programs in the Java computer language, a key to creating Internet applications. So John Ludwig, a rising Microsoft star who runs the Internet tools group, simply walked into a room of programmers...