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Given the demonstration that flavopiridol is a global transcriptional inhibitor, we wished to understand the selective activity of flavopiridol against certain cancer types in vivo . Clearly, genes with short mRNA half-lives would be most rapidly and quantitatively inhibited by flavopiridol, and thus we wished to assign the genes with short half-lives in OCI-Ly3 cells to functional classes.
It said, "Let a reputable firm draw up a short list based on published findings.
This might mean, in the short term, that cities such as Pittsburgh or Montreal would lose franchises.
A short list is not impossible, for it would join words like nigger, kike, mackerelsnapper , and others.
Those who labor in the rusting fiction mills of the Midwest look at Coen as a recent immigrant to the genre who's taking jobs away from native Contemporary Short Fictionites.