Word: dna
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...Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), a boy genius who's also a nice kid. When Metro City's nasty mayor Stone (Donald Sutherland) insists on activating a kind of death ray, Toby wanders into the lab and is killed. His grieving father creates a robot version of Toby - same DNA, but with cool extras like propellant flames in his shoes and machine guns in his butt. Rejected by his father, Toby escapes Metro City and lands on the grungy surface of earth, where children are enslaved by the cheerfully malicious Ham Egg (Nathan Lane), and an underclass of humans...
...PNAS in 2007 and led by John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, found that some 1,800 human gene variations had become widespread in recent generations because of their modern-day evolutionary benefits. Among those genetic changes, discovered by examining more than 3 million DNA variants in 269 individuals: mutations that allow people to digest milk or resist malaria and others that govern brain development. (Watch TIME's video "Darwin and Lincoln: Birthdays and Evolution...
...truth is, we have always been about innovation, we have always been about discovery. That's in our DNA. The truth is we also face more complex challenges than generations past. A medical system that holds the promise of unlocking new cures is attached to a health care system that has the potential to bankrupt families and businesses and our government. A global marketplace that links the trader on Wall Street to the homeowner on Main Street to the factory worker in China -- an economy in which we all share opportunity is also an economy in which we all share...
...supporters lost contact with him after he was blown off course. Rescuers searching his probable flight path first found only a bunch of brightly colored balloons, leading to hope Carli had parachuted to safety. However, parts of his body were found nearly two months later and positively identified through DNA testing...
...researchers—working at the Medical School, Children’s Hospital, and the Broad Institute—say this project differs from past endeavors because it utilizes new, more powerful technology to sequence the exome—the set of DNA that explicitly codes for proteins...