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...patients. A short time later, four research teams zeroed in on the gene that encodes the recipe for making the protein. To their great surprise, they discovered that beta amyloid was a fragment of a much larger protein, which came to be known as the amyloid-precursor protein, or APP for short...
Almost overnight, it seemed, scientific interest in the genetics of beta amyloid exploded. Researchers had long been aware that early-onset Alzheimer's, while rare, often ran in families. Could it be, they wondered, that the culprit was a mutant version of the APP gene? In 1991 scientists at London's St. Mary's Hospital Medical School screened the DNA of an Alzheimer's family and found what every geneticist in the field had been furiously looking for. The mutant APP gene sat on chromosome 21, and the single change in its DNA sequence occurred in the vicinity...
...institution, should remember that not all entrepreneurs become captains of industry. Entrepreneurship and non-profit ventures also deserve strong encouragement, and any promotion of entrepreneurship should take non-profit efforts into account. The experience of operating a non-profit can be just as valid as finding the next "killer app"; the College must ensure that the hope of future donations from Internet billionaires does not push its preferences away from the public good...
...what's the killer app for tele-immersion? "It's not so much a matter of particular applications," says Lanier. "It will just become part of life. It will be used by teenage girls to gossip, by business people to cut deals, by doctors to consult." And presumably by people who want to do long-distance lunch. Of course, there won't be any point in saying "Pass the squash," but otherwise it will be a normal mealtime conversation. Eating online...
...pace that is dizzying for us, perhaps turtle footed for you. This year the automobile industry produced a vehicle powered by liquid hydrogen; Detroit plans to have fuel-cell cars on the roads in 2004. (I assume yours run on carrots.) The computer industry comes up with a "killer app" every 18 months. With silicon chips reaching their limit, the industry announces "molecular computing"--shrinking computer circuits to the size of molecules. Soon we will have flexible transistors and bendable screens, easy to fold, like a newspaper...