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Kazin was different from many first-generation intellectuals who sailed into American high culture and sent for their past only long after they had established themselves, like immigrants bringing over the rest of the family.
On Oct. 23, a company called NuvoMedia rolled out the first, first-generation digital reading device, a $500 appliance called the Rocket eBook.
The bioelectronic detection platform described here includes disposable DNA chips and laboratory-based electronic readers and is a first-generation system that ultimately will facilitate the development of relatively low cost, arrayed nucleic acid-based tests.
The adenovirus (AV) backbone for the aquaporin-1 (AQP1) sense and antisense AV constructs was a replication-deficient "first-generation" AV with deletions of the E1 and E3 genes [ 26 ] . This "empty" AV contains the cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter and bovine growth hormone polyadenylation (bHG) site separated by a polylinker that was used to clone AQP1 DNA as described previously [ 27 ] . A recombinant AQP1 virus was constructed using a plasmid containing the coding sequence for AQP1, pCHIPev [ 28 ] . pCHIPev was digested and the AQP1 insert was subcloned into the shuttle vector pSKAC, creating pSKAC/AQP1.
Figure 1 again illustrates this: those who get first-generation therapies only just in time will in fact be unlikely to live more than 20–30 years more than their parents, because they will spend many frail years with a short remaining life expectancy (i.e.