Word: make
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...book of life will inevitably reveal secrets of both health and disease, promising new treatments for virtually every malady that afflicts us. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, mental illnesses of all sorts will almost certainly yield to a new generation of genome-based medicines that will make antibiotics and other modern drugs seem prehistoric...
...boldly declared that he was going after the biggest prize of all--the human genome. Not only would he sequence the whole thing, but he'd also do it by 2001, several years before the expected completion of the official Human Genome Project. While he insisted he'd make his genome map public, Venter said he'd sell proprietary analytical software to plumb it for information...
...evidently contains a molecular clock in the form of sequences of letters that are repeated between the genes and have mutated over time. The rate of these changes could serve to time-stamp specific traits. We may someday be able to pinpoint the epoch in which the traits that make us uniquely human emerged...
...nature build two such different organisms from what is essentially the same blueprint? No one knows for sure, though scientists are formulating theories. One is that when a gene sets out to make proteins it can splice itself together in alternative ways; another is that some genes in man are left running longer than they are in a mouse--so that our bodies grow bigger, our brain cells more numerous and so on. "It's not as if a new kind of brain cell were invented 150 million years ago [when mice and men diverged]," says Robert Weinberg, a professor...
...extensive publicity during the summer and fall for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, not to increase sales--a laughable notion given the enormous, pent-up demand--but to make herself available to some of her young readers. In October she went public for a project unrelated to Harry Potter but of personal concern to her. She agreed to become the first ambassador, i.e., spokeswoman, for the National Council for One Parent Families, a British charity, and donated $725,000 to the cause...