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...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...
Barksdale knew better: more was at stake than merely the market for browsers. Netscape's Navigator had the potential to be the next Windows: a method for launching programs and calling up information not only from the Internet but also from corporate networks and even from the user's own PC. In short, it could supplant the operating system and finally break Microsoft's hammerlock on the PC industry. Barksdale knew Microsoft wouldn't--couldn't--ignore the challenge. "It was such an obvious opportunity," he says. "They weren't going to miss it. We had always expected Microsoft...
...time, Fran was on her way to claiming at least 21 lives and doing probably more than $1 billion worth of damage. What makes this portrait remarkable is not just the violence it captures but also the method of capturing it. The image was snapped by the GOES-8 weather satellite, which actually took two pictures, one black-and-white and one in the invisible infrared spectrum. These two renderings were beamed to the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...
...move that could signal the beginning of much broader use of Crimson Cash throughout the University, two major library systems have decided to adopt that payment method for photocopying services...
...This method is not uncommon for ensuring preservation of historically significant buildings, according to Sullivan, who estimates that the commission holds about 30 such restriction agreements on various properties around the city...