Word: smith
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...that "could be run by monkeys"). So he and Claire Fraser, his wife and collaborator, left to found a private research firm, called the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), where in 1994 he upped the gene-sequencing ante to a new level. At the urging of medicine Nobelist Hamilton Smith, now a Celera scientist, Venter decided to use a technique called shotgunning to sequence the entire genome of a living organism, the H. influenzae bacterium (a bug that causes ear and respiratory infections...
...genome seems to carry amazingly detailed evidence of our evolutionary history, including traces of viruses that long ago invaded our DNA and became a permanent part of us. Says Smith: "We hope over the years to get a clear picture of how our genome was put together and even see where it might be going." Not just how, but when. For example, the genome 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...
...circumstances of the speaker--by millions, and Rowling's effect on the world around us becomes, just barely, imaginable. And it's not only young people who love the Harry Potter books; they have been eagerly adopted by uncounted adults and have prompted serious academic attention. Vance Smith, an assistant professor of English at Princeton University who is spending this year as a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein's old bailiwick, has just delivered a lecture called "Harry Potter and This Ever-Changing Medieval World" to an alumni seminar. He praises, among other things, Rowling...
...Gusmorino-Lee website, which included music and full motion Flash animation, left other candidates scrambling to liven up their own Internet pretences. Smith's webmaster spent eight hours last Wednesday adding Flash animation to Smith's website. Likewise, other campaigns, including Smith's, began campaigning at Loker Commons' Fly-By a day after Gusmorino's volunteers handed out more than 300 flyers during lunch...
...Crimson's, and trumpeted the support of the majority of current council members. Thirty of the 40 or so current council members responded to an e-mail survey asking about their preferences in the current race. Sixteen members--more than half of the respondents--said they supported Gusmorino, with Smith drawing seven votes and council treasurer Justin A. Barkley '02 drawing four votes...