Sentences with phrase «biological time bomb»

It's possible that the Nottingham Dollies have a biological time bomb in their DNA, but if so, it hasn't detonated.

By linking the pyocin gene to the sensing genes, the researchers ensured that when the E. coli detected P. aeruginosa in the vicinity, it would fill itself with large amounts of pyocin and become a biological time bomb.

The time has surely come to apply the same vigour to ending the release of biological time bombs into the coastal waters of the world.

These biological time bombs were meant to be defused by a UN treaty agreed in 2004 requiring big ships to filter and disinfect ballast water before dumping it.

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There is indeed a «biological time - bomb» whose fuse has already been lit.

(See The Biological Time - Bomb.)

(The Biological Time - Bomb [Signet Books; New York: New American Library, 1968]-RRB-

Granted, a biological clock may measure the days of our lives, but it's not a ticking time bomb set to go off on a particular date.

However, it turns out that Troy has planted a time bomb, with a biological payload that could destroy the entire city of Los Angeles — and Troy isn't about to say where it is.