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...case of genes, of course, the alphabet contains just four letters, or bases: A, T, C and G (for adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine). "A gene has millions of bases," says Dr. Andrew Greenberg, director of the Obesity and Metabolism Laboratory at Tufts University. "We're trying to find what's called a single-nucleotide polymorphism, which is a single change in the DNA, a single base." Sometimes a single-nucleotide polymorphism (or SNP, pronounced snip) leads to the production of a slightly different version of a protein or enzyme. Sometimes that kind of change causes a shift...
...nature preserve in Australia, he let a huge python wrap itself around his neck. In Auckland, New Zealand, he sipped espresso and watched in amazement as thrill seekers, attached by wires, leaped from the Sky Tower--the tallest structure in the southern hemisphere--in what is called a controlled BASE jump. At the trip's end, he thanked his daughters profusely and, eyes twinkling, said, "You know, I have other dreams...
MacFarlane then poked fun at Harvard students’ supposed snobbishness. “Some would call you elitist, overprivileged, and preening with a snotty sense of entitlement,” MacFarlane, as Stewie, said. “I call you my base...
...Average base salary of a fourth-year associate at a London law office, according to www.infirmation.com. Hay joined the London office of the firm Cleary Gottlieb in 2002 and remained listed on the firm’s website as of this past February...
...Though details are still emerging, it appears Zarqawi was killed when two Air Force F-16s from Balad Air Base in Iraq were directed to the house where Zarqawi was and dropped precision weapons. At a briefing this morning from Iraq, a senior U.S. officer displayed a large picture of the face of Zarqawi's corpse, part of a high-profile p.r. effort to show that the al-Qaeda military leader, who just weeks ago relased his own video of himself shooting an automatic weapon, was indisputably dead. President George Bush jumped on the rare, high-profile military success...