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What He's Known For: Serving haute head-to-tail food in a feel-good space
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Tony Maws is considered a pioneer in creative head-to-tail cookery.
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What He's Known For: Serving haute head-to-tail food in a feel-good space
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What He's Known For: Serving haute head-to-tail food in a feel-good space
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What He's Known For: Serving haute head-to-tail food in a feel-good space
Spiced Pumpkin, Eggplant and Rapini Kitty Greenwald 2011
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More surprisingly, the genes switched on in the same head-to-tail pattern as in bilaterians.
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Biologist Marc Dantzker with Cornell – considered one of the nation's premier institutions for bird research – said about 30 to 40 of the pelicans spotted by his group were oiled "head-to-tail."
Gulf Oil Spill Hits Louisiana's Largest Pelican Nesting Area 2010
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Much to their surprise, the scientists found that some genes switched on in embryos were nearly identical to the genes that determined the head-to-tail axis of bilaterians, including humans.
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Capecchi now made a crucial observation: when the tk gene was injected, copies were integrated in only one or two loci of the host genome, with multiple copies forming head-to-tail concatemers.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information 2007
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A series of careful experiments were performed, which unequivocally demonstrated that head-to-tail concatemers were generated by homologous recombination [31].
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information 2007
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