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First, DOX produced a smear of hybridization resulting from the inverted-repeat transcript (Figure 3a).
Few were aware, it said, that "Miss Lewinsky received a telephone call from Mr Clinton at 2 a.m. on December 17, 1997, suggesting that she issue a false affidavit to pre-empt a subpoena in the Paula Jones lawsuit"; or that "on January 21, 1998, Mr Clinton told his aide Sidney Blumenthal, falsely, that Miss Lewinsky was a 'stalker,' setting in motion the White House smear campaign against the defenceless, star-struck, exploited girl."
In an editorial, it added, "It is painful, pathetic, pointless, serving only to create a flood of McCarthyite smear and counter-smear; the Republicans want blood, preferably blood tested for the President's DNA.
Using this probe the smear of hybridization derived from the inverted-repeat construct was no longer detected, and the endogenous Pgm RNA levels were more readily observed and quantitated (Figure 3b).
In 41 of 44 MF/SS patients (93%), there was a discrete phenotypically abnormal population(s) identified by flow cytometric analysis that correlated with the presence of morphologically identifiable tumor cells on PB smear.