Sleeping Beauty

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Sleeping Beauty

A fanciful term for a transposase that can bind to inverted terminal repeats and mediate precise cut-and-paste transposition in cells from all major vertebrate classes, so named because it was “re-awakened” from 10 million years of evolutionary sleep—i.e., synthesised from extinct transposase systems.

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Sleeping Beauty tells the tale of Princess Belle, who pricks her finger on an enchanted spinning wheel and is cursed to fall asleep for 100 years - unless she's kissed by her one true love.

Queue for panto dream come true

Plainfield Dance Academy's presentation of "The Sleeping Beauty" features a lavish set and costumes, a company of 50 dancers including students, ages 8-18, and professional dancers of international renown such as Arionel Vargas with choreography by Altin Naska and Olena Nalyvaiko after Marius Petipa.

Plainfield Dance Academy Presents "Sleeping Beauty" May 13 & 20

"I don't think taking Sleeping Beauty books out of circulation completely would be right.

Mother Wants 'Sleeping Beauty' Off School Curriculum Over Inappropriate Sexual Behavior

The cast includes Trudy Scrumptious (aka Gordon Crawford) as Nanny Magee, Jolene O'Hara as Sleeping Beauty and Gavin Peden as The Prince.

Panto set to cast its spell (oh yes it is!)

Unlike the Monty Hall Problem, the Sleeping Beauty Problem remains controversial.

Sleeping Beauty on Monty Hall

With gorgeous costumes, cleverly arranged music and stunning dancing, Sleeping Beauty is a feast for the senses.

Classic fairy tale with lots of twists

The Sleeping Beauty Transposon System was invented in the lab of Perry Hackett, Ph.D., a founder of Discovery Genomics.

Gene Therapy Startup Immusoft Acquires Discovery Genomics

"I guess I know if it's called Sleeping Beauty, and if it's music by Tchaikovsky, that does draw a lot more people in than a show that isn't!

Beauty of a show is coming back

A truly classic fairy tale - it goes back to 17th-century renditions of the story of Sleeping Beauty - opens this Friday for a two-weekend run.

'Sleeping Beauty' in its original form

The ten selections that make up the bulk of the text examine the phenomena from a variety of different perspectives, approaching a range of related subjects, including Charles DickensAEs sleeping beauty in Great Expectations, Anne Thackeray RitchieAEs The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, the opiate world of Elizabeth Siddal, and others.

Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain: Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth

GRAFTON -- Save the date for Apple Tree Arts' enchanting musical, Disney's "Sleeping Beauty Kids'' to be staged at 7 p.m.

'Sleeping Beauty Kids' staged

In fact, with two companies from Russia staging three classics between them at St David's Hall - The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake - for the first time, the venue is dubbing it the Christmas Russian Ballet Festival.

'It's a bit like The X Factor - the audience has favourites' Three seasonal ballets are being staged once again at Cardiff's St David's Hall this Christmas. Karen Price finds out what audiences can expect and how the dancers will be celebrating on December 25