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However, DOX appeared to induce expression of both larger and smaller RNAs containing encore coding-region sequences, resulting in a smear of hybridization in the upper part of the lane, as indicated by the asterisk.
In the patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, the AFB smear of the sputum was positive in one case, and in another case the AFB smear was positive in his stool sample.
) The House Republican leadership, the papers report, has asked the FBI to investigate if the story was part of a White House smear campaign.
Don Nickles' angry questioning of Terry Lenzner, the private investigator who would later, in the thick of the Jones/Lewinsky/Willey/Who Knows Who Else matter, be accused (by Dick Morris, among others) of coordinating efforts to smear and intimidate those women.
Journal editorial-board member John H. Fund opines that many of John McCain's longtime GOP associates from Arizona--many of them now less-than-adoring of the senator--could have predicted McCain's Nixonian reaction to Monday's mildly critical NYT story (he accused the Bush campaign of "planting" the story in the Times to smear him; see yesterday's TP).