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...Genotek's main customers are medical researchers, Big Pharma companies developing drugs that can be tailored to individuals, and researchers involved in large genetic studies. Chaim Birnboim, a research scientist and med-school professor who developed Oragene, knew there was demand for a simple, noninvasive DNA-collection method, "and I thought, I can do that." The trick was discovering that saliva was a rich source of DNA that could be easily stabilized. The product could have important implications for law enforcement, forensic sciences and the military. Individuals may even want an Oragene kit to preserve a bit of a loved...
...endlessly from shtetl and ghetto in the wilderness of the Diaspora. At last, 40 years ago the arc of the desire was completed, the dream implanted in history. Israel, thought David Ben-Gurion, would be a ''light unto the nations.'' In his memoirs in 1949, the first Israeli President, Chaim Weizmann, wrote about the Zionist ambition to build a ''high civilization, based on the austere standards of Jewish ethics.'' But the Zionist dream cracked when it fell to earth. ''A land without people for a people without land,'' said the hopeful Zionist formula. But Palestine was not a ''land without...
...cold blood as he stood guard duty in Bethlehem. The army issued new shoot-to-kill orders against any Palestinian throwing Molotov cocktails. It also said in effect that Jewish settlers in the territories would be permitted to shoot rioters attacking them with gasoline bombs. There was prescience in Chaim Weizmann's declaration in 1949: ''I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish state by what it will do with the Arabs.'' The world's judgment this year is sometimes harsh, at least on the question of what the Israelis have done in regard to the Arabs...
...capacity for growth, and so it’s probably one of the best things that could have happened to me. Although I am not Jewish, this period reminds me most of a quote from Reuven Malter’s journey through yeshiva (Hebrew school) in Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen.” “A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one’s life with meaning,” Reuven’s father advises...
...stroke on Jan. 4, his doctors induced the coma in which the then Israeli Prime Minister has remained, unlikely to recover. According to newspaper reports, Sharon, 78, opened his eyes several times on May 28 while being transferred from a Jerusalem hospital to a long-term-care facility, the Chaim Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv. Doctors do not believe that his overall condition has changed, although they are continuing efforts to awaken him. Dr. Zeev Rotstein, Sheba's director, said last week, "We will treat him as best...