NO animal ever leaves the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, the Department of Agriculture laboratory sequestered off the tip of the North Fork.
The University of Nebraska is canceling Portuguese, closing agricultural research laboratories and off-site classrooms, shedding exercise science, paring Russian and museum studies.
HERE, in the dappled woods of upstate New York on a kiss-perfect summer day, Ward B. Stone is downstairs in the laboratory, showing off his freezer collection.
"We're not thinking about just one generation," said Glen Merfeld of G.E.'s chemical energy systems laboratory, showing off a test battery his employees had run into exhaustion.
He says she took her company badge and laboratory coat off, and left the building, of her own accord, though he acknowledges a security guard may have followed her out of the store.
He then blew up a drug lord's laboratory, peeled off his wetsuit to reveal an immaculate white DJ, snogged an exotic dancer, clocked in her eyeballs the reflection of a bad guy sneaking up behind them, tipped said bad guy into the bathtub, threw an electric heater in after him, and quipped: "Shocking, positively shocking!" All this, and the credits hadn't even started.
But the idea of genetic modification in a laboratory sets off primal fears, reflected by the epithet used by opponents to describe such products: Frankenfood.
Detection threshold was 0.1 ng/mL; PCT levels >0.5 ng/mL were considered abnormal (Laboratory cut off values).
He spent another 12 days in an underwater laboratory off the coast of Florida.
The talk is at 3 p.m. at the Grace Auditorium at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, off Route 25A.
