DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.
After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.
Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.
'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.
The letters TSS that I once read in the fine print buried on the bottom of tampon boxes soon came to define me. TSS - Toxic Shock Syndrome: a potentially fatal complication of certain types of bacterial infections.
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.
I'm immensely proud to have been made a CBE, but I don't ever use the letters after my name unless someone has included them in correspondence.
I get fan letters written in everything from crayons to lipstick.
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.
Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.
