Word: dna
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...mile voyage around the world. But the iconoclastic scientist who took on a consortium of national governments in a race to map the human genome--and fought them to a photo finish five years ago--is actually hard at work. He's prospecting--not for gold but for DNA, applying the same techniques developed to decode human genes to the genes of microbes scooped from the ocean and out of the air. On a pilot voyage, through the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic, he found more than 1,800 new species of bacteria and viruses--a surprise, since...
...weakness in Nadal's tennis DNA is that Spain routinely produces great dirt ballers who have feet for the slow clay of the French--which rewards baseliners--but who can't serve and volley on the slick grass of Wimbledon or on the high-speed hard courts of the U.S. and Australian opens. Federer has dominated Wimbledon the past two years; Nadal lost to Alexander Waske, ranked 147th in the world, at the grass-court tune-up in Halle. Still, a Wimbledon win is one of Nadal's goals. "If he can get past the first week and some...
...embryonic stem cell research, once it becomes more prevalent, will become almost universally accepted,” he wrote, and compared it to the achievements of other doctors whose work had been considered “sacrilegious” by their contemporaries—such as the development of DNA research, which Summers wrote had been decried at first, but soon became a standard part of medicine and biology...
...blistering rash that plagues about 1 million Americans each year, most of them elderly--chances are you know how devastating it can be. And if you've never had shingles--well, just wait. Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox--a nasty little bundle of DNA that lies dormant in sensory nerves for decades after the initial infection until, for reasons that are still unclear, it is reawakened. Anyone who has ever had chicken pox is at risk of developing shingles, as well as the nerve damage that often accompanies the rash...
...Number of people who crossed the land bridge from Asia to North America 14,000 years ago?the progenitors of all Native Americans, according to a new DNA study...