Word: though
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...desire to help speed up human genetics that drove me in 1986 to become an early partisan of the Human Genome Project, whose ultimate objective was to sequence the roughly 3 billion DNA letters that comprise our genetic code. Though many young hot-shots argued that the time for the project had not yet arrived, those of us a generation older were seeing at too close hand our parents and spouses falling victim to diseases of genetic predisposition. And virtually all of us knew couples rearing children whose future was clouded by a bad throw of the genetic dice...
...waging a struggle that is driven by personality and powerful emotions. He promises an educational revolution for Mexico's long-impoverished campesinos, better health care for the country's poor and a stable economy for its businessmen. Mostly, though, he promises change. As he streaks across the country in a Learjet, barnstorming at three or four rallies a day, he calls on his audiences for a "peaceful insurgency." Says Fox: "President Kennedy called on all Americans to work in putting a man on the moon. That was quite a challenge. But getting the P.R.I. out of Los Pinos [the Mexican...
Celera, by contrast, has not only the pages but all the words and letters as well--though neither side can yet say what most of these words and letters mean. And while the HGP boasts that it has done its sequence nearly seven times over to guarantee accuracy, Celera has gone over its own almost five times. Moreover, the company came up with a new technique that made its sequencing rate, already the fastest around, even faster. In addition, Venter claims that by the end of the year, he'll have sequenced the genome of the mouse--whose 2.3 billion...
...about a machine that could "read" genes by shining lasers on their dyed letters (A, T, C and G, the four nitrogenous bases--adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine--that spell out the genome's "words"), he immediately flew west to meet its builder, Michael Hunkapiller, in Foster City, Calif. Though NIH wouldn't pay for a prototype, he got one anyway...
Still, many researchers considered shotgunning crude and inaccurate. By this time, Venter's relationship with Human Genome Sciences had soured over quarrels about patenting and publication of data, and he and TIGR split with HGS. Other labs were now in the shotgunning game--though of the 30 or so organisms decoded to date, two-thirds were decoded by TIGR, with results that are generally acknowledged to be of high quality...