This massive amount of DNA includes domesticated elements with evolutionarily spectacular functions, such as the RAG (recombination activating) genes that form the basis of V(D J recombination in our immune system [ 2, 3], and the ERVWE1 (endogenous retrovirus group W, member 1) gene that plays a role in placental development [ 4].
Give them amphetamine or a drug for Parkinson's disease, Dr. Scammell said, and "the changes in brain function are spectacular," but give them modafinil, and they show little more than ordinary wakefulness.
An élite group of marines whipped into spectacular physical shape, whose function is to scramble stealthily ahead of regular troops and scout the enemy's positions behind the lines, they are asked to drive north to Baghdad in a convoy of Humvees, like sitting ducks.
McCartney's wall is both spectacular and educational: it functions as catharsis or empowerment for the women who helped create it – ranging from a 76-year-old grandmother to 18-year-old twins – and exposes viewers to the near-infinite variety possible in genital anatomy.
But unlike Belnap and Green these authors did not name the function in any spectacular way.
Whilst early studies of 11β-HSD in the CNS showed the presence of the enzyme, ideas of function were dominated by the spectacular biology of 11β-dehydrogenase in the kidney which was initially thought to be the same enzyme.
It has lived for longer, more than 30 years, as a spectacular redundant structure than as a fully functioning power station.
When one of the agents that has a liver-specific phase is used, scanning late in the post-vascular phase (i.e. after 3 5 min) shows the distribution of normally functioning liver in a very spectacular way[ 3].
Both pursuits go predictably awry, with one spectacular mishap after another, most involving some bodily function or other.
Hundreds of labs worldwide have for decades been studying this powerful genetic model from various perspectives, and we have made spectacular advances in understanding most pathways and cellular functions.
