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originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
Looking like the Stock Market crash is incoming at the end of this week?
The Unusual Origin of the Polymerase Chain Reaction by Kary B. Mullis
A surprisingly simple method for making unlimited copies of DNA fragments was conceived under unlikely circumstances-during a moonlit drive through the mountains of California.
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"In the spring of 1984, while working on the patent, I presented a poster describing the PCR at the annual Cetus Scientific Meeting. [...]. Yet nobody seemed to be interested in my poster, and I felt increasingly anxious. [...] Finally, I noticed Joshua Lederberg, president of the Rockefeller University, nearby, and I snared him into looking at my results. Josh looked the poster over carefully and then turned his enormous head, the Nobel-laureated head, the head that had deduced in 1946 that bacteria could have sexual intercourse. "Does it work?" He seemed amused. Pleased, I confirmed that it did, and we talked for a long time. At one point he mentioned that about 20 years previously, after Kornberg had discovered DNA polymerase, the two of them had considered the notion that the enzyme could somehow be harnessed to make large quantities of DNA.They had not figured out exactly how to do it, however. I reminded him that oligonucleotides were not readily available at that time and that there was hardly any DNA sequence information either. But he looked back at my poster with an expression that I have almost come to expect. I think that Josh, after seeing the utter simplicity of the PCR, was perhaps the first person to feel what is now an almost universal first response to it among molecular biologists and other DNA workers: "Why didn't I think of that?" And nobody really knows why; surely I don't. I just ran into it one night.
In an interview with Russiaās Rossiya 24 news channel aired on Thursday, Lavrov was asked whether he thought Bidenās reluctance to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin would further complicate tensions in the international arena.
āIt doesnāt complicate [it] at all, because the state of affairs as it stands today has already been driven, first of all by the US, to such a condition that it canāt get any worse, in my opinion,ā the Russian minister replied.
RT
originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
Luv me some Sanctions... The US Gov't sends the EU into the economic slaughterhouse.
The Economist (archived link)
The Biden administration said Thursday that the COVID-19 public health emergency will continue through Jan. 11 as officials brace for a spike in cases this winter.
originally posted by: Thoughtful1
Covid Vaccination in Pregnancy Research Study
I was wondering how they recruited pregnant non men participants for the Covid jabs clinical trials. They went to the very places where women would have the most trust.
Were they given informed consent that something could happen to their pregnancies? This would be ground zero. They would see that women were suffering miscarriages but they said nothing and did nothing! Instead they allowed the clinical trials to continue.
The order itself is pretty straightforward, at least with respect to Sethās personal laptop, because it directs the FBI to āproduce the information it possesses related to Seth Richās laptop and responsive to Plaintiffās FOIA requests within 14 days of this Order.ā On the other hand, the order does not discuss Sethās work laptop, which is also in the possession of the FBI.
The FBI is still trying to withhold records about Seth Rich and CrowdStrike
Pfizerās COVID Drug Paxlovid Can Cause Deadly Blood Clots If Taken With Other Heart Medication, Study Warns
Five of the most important cardiovascular drug interactions with Paxlovid to be aware of include:
Former Oregon Mayor Pleads Guilty to Possession of Pornography
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Supreme Court Denies Trump Appeal for Special Master To Review Classified Records
Trumpās legal team, in their initialĀ filingĀ to the Supreme Court, argued that āthe unprecedented circumstances presented by this caseāan investigation of the Forty-Fifth President of the United States by the administration of his political rival and successorācompelled the District Court to acknowledge the significant need for enhanced vigilance and to order the appointment of a Special Master to ensure fairness, transparency, and maintenance of the public trust.ā
Trump Responds After Jan. 6 Committee Votes To Subpoena Him
Why didnāt the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago? Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting?ā