Word: dna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then came the Jurassic Park rumors. Larry Agenbrod, a Northern Arizona University mammal expert working on the excavation team, said he had been approached by U.S. cryogenics firms interested in cloning the mammoth by combining elephant DNA with DNA extracted from the mammoth remains...
...While many find fault with this hypothesis - the skull is a lone example and does not contain the correct matter for carbon-dating - anthropologists around the world agree that decisive evidence of the skull's geographic ancestry will be produced by testing its DNA and comparing it to that of other Negroid peoples, such as Australian aborigines and Africans. The remains of the woman who's spawning the debate, nicknamed Luzia, were found in 1975 outside Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third largest city, and were in storage in a Rio museum for a quarter of a century. That sound...
...with the advances of genomics in recent years, scientists have a new lens through which to single out mutations of individual proteins in a DNA strand...
...because he's absolutely single minded, almost manic, in his pursuit of quality and excellence." Indeed, Jobs' most potent weapon is still his messianic zeal to fulfill his original vision of Apple as the bridge between the average citizen and the mysterious world of the computer. "His DNA was built into this company," says Heidi Roizen, a partner at the Softbank venture-capital firm who has known Jobs since the beginning. "And when he came back, everything fell into place--a return to excellence in design, to listening to the consumer, to developing cool products...
...Percentage of our DNA that's been decoded by the nine-year-old Human Genome Project...