91. In making its new estimate, Incyte scientists depended on that fact that while biologists cannot recognize where the genes lie on DNA, human cells can. 92. In most human cells, they said, the virus reproduces itself and kills the infected cell in the process. 93. In one set of experiments, scientists found that injecting human cells in the laboratory with the so-called telomerase gene enabled the cells to keep growing and dividing indefinitely. 94. In the study reported in Science, scientists added the telomerase enzyme to normal human cells to see if they could override the cells natural degradation. 95. In theory, because humans are primates, the patent covered human cells as well. 96. In the second study, researchers recorded how the lethal factor protein of the anthrax toxin, known as LF, wended its deadly way through the human cell. 97. In theory, because humans are primates, the primate patent covered human cells as well. 98. It has been thought that it was important to keep bacteria out of human cells. 99. It has either developed on its own, or stolen from human cells, a gene that makes flagpole proteins. |