Word: rna
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Captain Leroy H. Dart Jr. and Master Sergeant Thomas R. Turner, the new wrinkle rests on facts about the cell's nucleic acids that were unknown in 1943. Biochemists are now sure that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) generally increases in human cancer cells; they suspect that ribonucleic acid (RNA) also rises. If the nucleic acid can be spotted under a microscope, it should be a tipoff to cancer...
Montgomery swept past the white, empty shells of Tobruk's ruined houses. He rumbled through Ain el-Gazála, Dérna. He roared on past El Gubba, where the Silesian father in a flowing beard, who had clung to his parish through five occupations, intoned: "Religion is above wars...
...German Army's retreat as far as el-Gazála was orderly enough. Beaten back rather than completely outmaneuvered, Rommel had left el-Gazála to hold el-Mechili-el-Tmimi road in defense of Dérna. In one of the biggest battles of the Desert campaign, the British cut this road and started their advance. This was apparently the beginning...
Because the success of the next push-to Dérna or Bengazi-will directly reflect Ritchie's ability, it will be the high spot of his career, and of the offensive. Neil Ritchie is only 44. If only because of his youth, he may do better than Cunningham, who is ten years his senior. But his career, from subaltern in the Black Watch at 17 to Major General at 43, has been almost too formal to promise the flashes of unorthodoxy which usually herald great commanders...
...Three days later Army patrols attacked a land convoy between Tobruch and Salûm, and destroyed twelve more. British reconnaissance noted ex tensive digging on the escarpment around Halfâya Pass, only convenient gate from Libya to Egypt; extensive aerial preparations at the airports of Dérna and Gambut...