scientific american - 2001 10 - beyond the zone
scientific american - 2001 10 - beyond the zone
... produce therapeutic pro-
teins. McCormick thinks that the single-chain anti-
bodies can be adapted easily to one-size-fits-all thera-
pies, perhaps against cancers of the pancreas, colon and
other ... incorporates the three-dimension-
al shape of a tire. They presented their work on August
27 at the Internoise 2001 meeting in the Hague, the
Netherlands.
—Alison McCook
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scientific american - 2001 03 - sculpting the earth from inside out
... Molecule
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ENO, NEV. The Chicxulub Cra-
ter, sprawled across the Gulf of
Mexico and the Yucatán Penin-
sula, ... an approximately 18 0-
kilometer-wide remnant of the impact of
a 1 0- kilometer-wide meteorite. It has been
called the smoking gun in the extinc...
scientific american - 2001 05 - get the idea (tomorrow's web will)
... Biológica of Doñana-CSIC. At night,
the animals leave the safety of the scrubs to
hunt on the open lands and find themselves at
the mercy of hounds unleashed by the poach-
ers during their nocturnal ... badgers
belonged to the five territories in Coto del
Rey; the others resided within the core of the
park, Reserve Biológica. Of the tagged bad-
gers, the team recorded 13...
scientific american - 1993 10 - is los angeles winning the war on smog
... all the vehicles on
the road, the emissions-control equip-
ment was either removed by the own-
er or damaged by the use of leaded fu-
els. The latter problem has abated in
recent years as the ... cells incorpo-
rated the HS-tk gene, whereas virtually
no normal cells did. When they then
gave the rats ganciclovir, they got an-
other pleasant surprise. The drug killed
not onl...
scientific american - 1994 10 - special issue - life in the universe
... is a prime success of the big bang cosmology.
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Copyright ... from each
other by their length. En-
zymes snip the markers
from the longer strands of
DNA within which they are
embedded; markers of dif...
scientific american - 1997 10 - special issue - the future of transportation
... value. Scien-
tists have identified fewer
than 1 percent of the fauna that thrive
in the park’s 10, 000 thermal sites. Diver-
sa gets the rights to any discoveries and
products from them, and the park
shares ... Bal-
asubramanian. Last year, while chatting
in the car on the way home from a con-
ference, Regan suggested that two pro-
teins being studied in the lab might just
len...
scientific american - 2001 06 - the paradox of the sun's hot corona
... archaeologists tell
layers apart by playing a game of which-stars-
are-not-like -the- others. The sun and most
other stars swirl around the galactic center
within a thin circular disk. Nearly a ... makes peo-
ple ask more questions.”
—Kate Wong
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Profile
of the most-talked-about environmental issues of the
20th century...
scientific american - 2002 10 - vehicle of change - how fuel - cell cars could revolutionize the world
... prevent mother-to-child transmis-
sion, two months after treatment. Neverthe-
less, the benefits of these drugs clearly out-
weigh the possibility of resistance, says Lynn
Morris of the National ... single fat-
ty-acid-producing gene called SCD-1
gorged on high-fat, sucrose-rich diets
without packing on the pounds or
sending their blood into a diabetes-in-
ducing sugar rush. Instead th...
scientific american - 1993 04 - controlling the quantum jitters of atoms
... after they
have passed through the cavity. The
red laser beam traces the line of the in-
frared laser used to excite the atoms; the
blue beam marks the path of the atoms
themselves. When in use, the ... stable, the high
birth rates of the baby boom postponed
the aging of the population by widen-
ing the base of the age structure again.
As the baby boomers grow...