Word: dna
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...center of a growing national debate over the fallibility of capital punishment. Although polls show that Americans overwhelmingly believe in the moral righteousness of executing murderers for their crimes, they turn squeamish at the thought of an innocent's being punished for another's evil deeds. Thanks to DNA testing and other forensic advances, convictions are being overturned with increasing frequency...
...this collaboration has served as a warm-up for the big event we have planned for next month. Feb. 28 will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the signal achievements of 20th century science: the discovery of the structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick. We're going to be celebrating that breakthrough both in the magazine and, starting Feb. 19, in Monterey, Calif., where Watson and TIME president Eileen Naughton will be the hosts of a three-day conference called The Future of Life...
...meeting is shaping up to be an extraordinary event featuring as distinguished a gathering of scientific luminaries as I've ever seen. Among the speakers: Jim Watson and Hamilton Smith, both Nobel prizewinners for their work on DNA; Pulitzer prizewinning entomologist and sociobiologist E.O. Wilson; genome mappers Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter; John Gearhart, who isolated the fetal embryonic stem cell; Dean Hamer, the leading expert on behavior genes; plant geneticist Ingo Potrykus; neuroscientists Dr. Wise Young and Rudolph Tanzi; inventors Jaron Lanier and Raymond Kurzweil; software gurus Bill Joy and John Gage; environmentalists Thomas Lovejoy and Brian Halweil...
...members of other international terrorist groups. They scoured caves and safe houses in Afghanistan and Pakistan and sought records from police and security services worldwide. Thousands of prints were digitized and entered into a classified database, along with names, aliases, mug shots, addresses, associates, descriptions of scars and, occasionally, DNA data...
...ISSUE The Secret of Life Cracking the DNA code has changed how we live, heal and imagine the future...