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Those sequences are so useful, in fact, that researchers started tapping into the data long before they were complete. Scientists at drug firms, biotech companies and university labs have taken literally hundreds of baby steps into the era of genomic medicine using an impressive array of powerful new tools: DNA chips and microarrays that let scientists see at a glance which of thousands of genes are active in a given tissue sample; sophisticated software that can organize gigabytes of genetic data; huge databases of genes, disease-tissue samples and mRNA--the molecules that initiate the actual construction of working proteins...
Another Whitehead scientist, oncologist Dr. Todd Golub, is trying to improve on the primitive techniques doctors use to guide their fight against cancer. Currently, pathologists use the location of a tumor in the patient's body and its appearance under a microscope to determine what sort of malignancy is involved. It works often--but not always. Melanoma, for example, starts out as a skin cancer but may end up in the lung or breast, where it can be much more damaging than primary lung or breast cancer...
...Manhattan corner and heard what she describes as "the voice of God" calling her to the Episcopal ministry, into which she was ordained in 1987. But there was a second challenge the rabbi hadn't intended. On that same curbside, Lind promised herself, "I won't let the church use my sexuality as an excuse for not hearing God's voice through me." She was gay. And at that time, in a church with a distinct live-and-let-live-but-don't-rock-the-boat attitude, she felt that a dramatic coming-out would be a distraction...
What are my needs? I want my machine to plug into my TV so I can use it as a DVD player at home, but also be portable enough to use on the train or even in the car--without headphones--in which I am facing too many hours of family road trips this summer...
CONRAD: When I use the term coffee...I mean it in terms of the coffee being a tool by which those funds are raised...