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...like we had a ruler with only half-inches on it,” said Szentgyorgyi, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory. The astro-comb “gives you lots and lots of ticks on you ruler, it’s like having rulings of a thousandth of an inch.” The scientists say they will test the device this summer at the Mt. Hopkins Observatory in Arizona in preparation for use as part of a joint operation by Harvard and the University of Geneva that will be based in the Canary islands. The New Earths...
...advertising revenue. Despite a few recent successes, the Indian national side is still a minnow in the pool of world football. It's ranked a woeful 145th overall by FIFA, football's global governing body, and 24th in Asia - 13 spots below Bahrain, whose population is less than one-thousandth of India...
...problem is money: decoding a genome is still too expensive. Today, the cost of is about $1,000 for a one-thousandth of the so-called “coding regions” of DNA, that is, DNA that actually codes for proteins. This already represents a huge drop in cost from the HGP, which finished in 2003 and cost $3 billion. The $1,000-threshold is important, says professor of genetics George M. Church, because at that point it becomes economical for many individuals to have their genomes sequenced. Church’s lab develops less expensive sequencing technologies...
...hottest events in Gaypril. 8 p.m. in Adams. Afterwards, get “housed” for those who can’t at Harvard Habitat for Humanity’s dance/benefit in the Eliot Dining Hall. Your $5 will go towards the creation of one-hundred-thousandth of a house. Real estate’s expensive...
Afterwards, get “housed” for those who can’t at Harvard Habitat for Humanity’s dance/benefit in the Eliot Dining Hall. Your $5 will go towards the creation of one-hundred-thousandth of a house. Real estate’s expensive...