ETEC at 1 x [10.sup.8] concentration were incubated with mouse serum raised against the chimeric protein, for 30 min.

Why use the term chimeric when it already possesses two distinct meanings?

PXB Mouse is a chimeric mouse whose liver is replaced with human hepatocytes and offers pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies a means to predict human drug ADME properties at an early stage of drug development.

But Chimeric Productions have found a fresh new way of presenting this challenging play by placing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the present day as 21st Century backpackers.

The bird-headed warrior so disturbingly prominent in Europe After the Rain belongs to a patchwork race of chimeric aliens that populated Ernst's work continuously after the late '20s, acting out creepy and inscrutable social rituals.

Trophoblasts from two embryos could have joined before implantation, creating two genetically distinct, nonchimeric, cell masses inside a chimeric trophoblast "shell," investigators said.

Drawing techniques and means of representation are remarkably consistent across the world and diversity of project; drawing on montage, and contrasting the seductive non-specificity of the model photograph or the frozen film frame with the chimeric accuracy of the digital image.

Then they engineered a chimeric fusion protein called GFD composed of Fc[gamma]RIIb and the cat allergen Fel D1.

In another group of studies, the researchers have used several vaccine groups in rhesus monkeys infected with a chimeric HIV-SIV virus, known as SHIV.

Tre2 represents a hybrid, or so-called chimeric version, of two genes that fused together, Paulding and his coworkers assert in an upcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

CREATIONS BY YOU[TM], formerly Chimeric, Inc., brings award-winning personalized keepsake activity kits like IlluStory[R], Plate Works[TM] and more.

The new test is an enzyme-linked immuno-sorbents assay (ELISA) using recombinant chimeric proteins composed of key Borrelia epitopes and is more specific than the most commonly used whole cell ELISA and just as sensitive.

The method, called ''Isothermal and Chimeric primer-initiated Amplification of Nucleic acids'' (ICAN), will make it possible to conduct gene testing more cheaply than the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method currently used, Takara Shuzo said.

In soybean, transposable element systems have been proposed for Y18-m (variegated leaves), r-m (chimeric seed coat), and w4-m (purple or white chimeric flowers) (Vodkin, 1994).