Word: chip
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...each provocation by counterattacking the offending battery. The Pentagon has no doubt what Saddam is up to. He hopes one of the SAMs will find its target and that a "golden BB will get him an American pilot," says a U.S. general. It would be a prized bargaining chip in the standoff, but even if Saddam fails, "defiance is still more important than success," says Georgetown University expert Amatzia Baram. After enduring four days of U.S. bombing, "Saddam needs to show his people he can bloody the American nose...
...oncologist takes a few cells from Jose's tumor and places them on a microchip. Within minutes, the chip identifies five mutant genes that, like some kind of diabolical cheerleading squad, have pushed Jose's cancer to grow, grow, grow. Someday, perhaps soon, doctors will be able to fix the wayward genes themselves. Until then, they will have to rely on the next best thing: drugs developed by pharmaceutical firms that block the destructive messages generated by the errant genes. Jose's physician selects a combination of treatments that matches the tumor's genetic profile. Six months later, no trace...
...would you make a gene chip? Let's say you want to identify which genes get turned on, or "expressed," by the immune system in the first few weeks after the AIDS virus begins its attack on the body. First you download the sequences of perhaps 10,000 genes--every A, C, G and T of the hereditary alphabet--into a computer. Then, still using the computer, you figure out what the mirror image of each sequence would be. (DNA can mirror itself as well as RNA.) The aim is to transform the mirror-sequence data into actual strands...
...soon as I could. But now the Micron help guy said he wasn't allowed to support it--the machine had been "altered." This is a hugely cheesy way to treat customers. Still, even if you plan on altering it, a Millennia Max, with a 450-MHz Pentium II chip that's even faster than mine, now costs $1,999--a bargain, in my estimation...
Charles River is a "high-risk" mutual fund with 27 undergraduate members who pool their money to invest primarily in foreign and domestic low-cap equities--smaller, startup companies, as opposed to established blue chip giants like General Electric...