Ten Minute Sabbatical

Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

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It is a great day for science.
It is a great day for humanity.
When you realize your vaccine has a 90 percent effectiveness, that’s overwhelming.

This is really a spectacular number. I wasn’t expecting it to be this high. I was preparing myself for something like 55 percent.

1. Like muscle tissue with sarcomeres
6. Sir Humphry who isolated sodium
8. Unit of temperature named for William Thomson
9. Proteins that form microfilaments
10. Virus that infects prokaryotes
11. Slender projection of a neuron
12. Match up, as chromosomes during meiosis
16. Neurons in the cerebellum with many dendrites (2 wds.)
19. Vessel typically carrying oxygenated blood
20. Prove Darwin right?
21. Newtonian trio
22. Outermost germ layer of an embryo

2. Sheath enclosing the spinal cord3. Outside the body, as a test-tube experiment (2 wds.)4. Arctic plain affected by global warming5. Specimen of microscopic algae6. Like Leeuwenhoek and Huygens7. Acetic liquid11. Where schools are held behind glass13. Pharyngeal tonsil14. Pepsin or ...

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