Word: processing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seat of the mind had been relegated to a lab in the windowless basement--we spend our days isolating and sequencing DNA. We look for changes in the base pair sequences, called nucleotide polymorphisms, that might characterize people suffering from these disorders. Weeks might go into the process of finding a G (guanine) replaced by a C (cytosine) on a schizophrenia susceptibility gene...
...product of both genetic and environmental influences; nature and nurture co-choreograph our intellectual steps and missteps. Still, it often seems superficial and reductionist to explain complex mental machinations with a chromosome number and base substitution. How can we possibly acknowledge the flair of the human thought process by merely pinpointing a genetic locus...
Adams, though, has been less than pleased with the filming process in Cambridge due to the unceasing rain...
...domestic political foes may have smelled blood. Barak's foreign minister, David Levy, resigned Wednesday, taking his coalition votes with him. Losing Levy from the cabinet isn't exactly a body blow - part of his pique at Barak was precisely that he'd been sidelined in the negotiation process - but the eight parliamentary votes of Levy's party may be critical to Barak's survival. That much was clear Wednesday when the Knesset, on a preliminary reading, approved legislation calling for early elections, thus putting it on the agenda for a full vote. While the vote came immediately before...
...York Times said... that your daughter Elizabeth's return address was on material sent to other candidates. Was she involved in the vetting process...