Word: dna
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When President Bill Clinton hosted an event at the White House four years ago to celebrate the end of the race to decode human DNA, the headlines belonged to the leaders of the two competing teams: J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins. But everyone in the room knew that the unheralded star of the race was the big teddy bear of a man sitting in the fourth...
Wealth will not pass beyond three generations," warns a Chinese proverb. Genes, the thinking goes, don't always carry the entrepreneurial DNA of an empire's founder to his descendants, who consistently dissipate the ancestral fortune. That quaint admonition must be weighing on the mind of Hong Kong--based alpha tycoon Li Ka-shing. Though he has given no indication that he is contemplating retirement, Asia's richest man (estimated net worth: $12.4 billion) is 75 years old. Which of his two sons--quiet, nose-to-the-grindstone Victor or sociable, creative Richard--will take over the family businesses...
Atwood invents hybrid creatures like pigoons, the disastrous fusing of pig and human DNA, genetic engineering companies with names like HelthWyzer and a computer game called Kwiktime Osama. Although the names are fanciful, many of the details are based on real science, which is what makes Atwood’s cautionary tale so frighteningly plausible...
...terrorists using planes as bombs and finally that the Bush administration itself had been told in 2001 that terrorists had considered using planes as missiles. Now, she wants to revise it. It’s a bit like Bill Clinton, after the blue dress came back with his DNA, wanting to “revise” his claim that he “did not have sexual relations with that woman.” The understatement (“reverse,” “disavow” or “apologize for” would...
...comment deepened suspicions Cuevas had always had about Correa's role in the disappearance of her baby; Correa was at the house at the time of the fire, while Pedro was out grocery shopping. So Cuevas looked closely at the little girl's face. "Those dimples were all the DNA I needed," says the 31-year-old. But after years of watching Cops on TV, Cuevas knew dimples weren't evidence: she followed Aaliyah upstairs, said, "Sweetheart, you've got some gum in your hair," and ripped five strands of hair off her scalp. Aaliyah yelped but didn...