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For example, T59A and T59S are both repressor-defective in vivo [ 7, 10], although there seems to be some disagreement as to exactly how defective T59S is for RNA binding in vitro [ 7, 11].
If a batch of food is suspected to be defective, the performance of organisms fed with the new food can be compared with the performance of organisms fed with a food of known quality in side-by-side tests.
Drosophila Boule mutants was defective in the translation of the meiosis-specific CDC25 homologue, Twine [ 11 ] , and DAZL was found to be associated with polyribosomes in mouse testes [ 12 ] . More recently, DAZL was shown both in vitro and in a yeast three-hybrid system to bind specifically to oligo(U) stretches interspersed by G or C residues, including a U-rich segment in the 5' UTR of mouse Cdc25C mRNA [ 13 ] .
One Newsweek columnist suggested this week that the Vanity Fair story was defective, among other reasons, because its evidence fell short of the photographic.