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Finally, a group of odds `n' sods: nickel (the devil's metal), from modern German Kupfernickel copper demon: Nickel is a diminutive of Nicklaus , similar to the English Old Nick, a term for the Devil, so called because nickel was considered a contaminant when found in copper ore but in the early days of mining--as if the metal were spooked.
Apoptosis was assessed by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated deoxyuridine triphosphate (dUTP) nick end labeling (TUNEL) (In situ Cell Death Detection Kit, POD, Boehringer-Manheim).
But not every kid is as lucky as Nick.
One group used a combination of nick translation and nuclease S1 treatment to randomly insert GFP into a cAMP-dependent protein kinase regulatory subunit from Dictyostelium [ 6 ] . A surprisingly large number of the resulting fusion proteins were fluorescent and retained cAMP binding, demonstrating that this can be a powerful approach.
If Nick is right, as he surely is, that the cops are driven to bust more non-criminals in order to keep their arrest numbers up, isn't it just a (non-simple) matter of tweaking the incentivization scheme?