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Professors also demonstrated ways they use technology to aid their classes, which include animated diagrams of DNA strands, films of field trips that some students could not attend and interactive portfolio managers...
...research groups recently received a $100 million grant from the International Human Genome Project to jumpstart the work. For its part, the Whitehead Genome Center has been given $8.4 million to help construct a catalog of DNA variations, called the “International HapMap...
...idea for the HapMap comes from work done at the Whitehead Center, where researchers found that human DNA has been inherited generation after generation in large, unchanged blocks and has not yet changed significantly...
These large blocks of DNA are known as haplotypes and the HapMap will chart their location throughout the human genome...
...nationalistic umbrage last year, a British tabloid, the Daily Mirror, printed the phone number of wealthy American film producer Steven Bing, whom it dubbed Bing Laden, and urged readers to call and berate him. Bing's crime? Denying he was the father of British model Elizabeth Hurley's child (DNA tests later proved his paternity). Bing, seen here with Hurley in happier times, threatened to sue the paper for libel, but the parties reached an agreement in which the paper would print an apology in its pages. The apology came last week in the form of a front-page headline...