"You prioritize by looking at the data, deciding how important a problem is and how amenable it is to treatment," said Dr. Frieden, whose passion for obscure medical studies is like a home cook's lust for rare spatulas, and who peppers his conversation with references to India.
The aggressiveness of the bug is not what's important here, but rather how amenable it is to the genetic engineering required to make it useful as a cancer drug.
"It shows they were complicit to this and how amenable they were to hurting another American, even if the source came from a foreign government". Karoun Demirjian, Tom Hamburger, Ellen Nakashima and Julie Tate contributed to this report.
A number of models have been proposed to explain the retention and evolution of duplicated genes in the face of deleterious, pseudogenizing mutations [ 3- 5]; these models differ in the predictions they make about post-duplication sequence evolution and, consequently, in how amenable they are to investigation.
"What we are really hoping to figure out is how amenable the judges will be to continue cases," Govindaiah told HuffPost.
One possible reason for this discrepancy could be a difference in how amenable hypoglycemic episodes are to detection and prevention in type 1 versus type 2 diabetes.
This tries to measure a country's e-business environment, taking account of various factors that indicate how amenable a market is to internet-based opportunities.
Although it is likely that the quantitative and qualitative traits (i.e. concentrations and structures) of condensed tannins are under genetic control (Scioneaux et al., 2011), questions remain as to how amenable these traits are to improvement by plant breeding.
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