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Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics Jack W. Szostak and colleagues Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider will be awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine in December for their research illuminating the cell’s solution to protect its DNA, the prize committee announced yesterday...
Telomeres, which Szostak first described with Blackburn in a 1982 paper, are regions of repeated DNA sequences at the ends of DNA strands that protect the overall structures from degrading during replication...
...experts. Stefanoni is highly regarded within the Italian legal system, having passed a series of stringent state tests to join the national Polizia Scientifica in Rome. One of her chief antagonists is defense expert Sara Gino, a whiz-kid forensic expert from Turin who charges that Stefanoni cherry-picked DNA results to profile the suspects, ignoring vast amounts of other biological material. Gino also alleges that Stefanoni lied about test results that didn't back up the police thesis of a drug-fueled sex murder involving Knox. Responding to charges of shoddy work, Stefanoni tartly told an Italian newspaper recently...
...these Punjabis were intent on succeeding in this alien land - and they did. The Punjabis are among the richest communities in Delhi today, owning many of the city's largest and most successful businesses. In the process, they became accused of injecting a new ruthlessness into the city's DNA, and are the butt of xenophobic jokes still being tossed around today, such as "the national bird of Punjab is tandoori chicken" and "the only culture in Punjab is agriculture...
...exactly what genetic enhancement is: reality, just with some creativity, to make it something you want to read about. The book he chooses to teach from, which itself is fictional, is called “Make Your Writing Come Alive,” which describes what DNA is: a language that has created life. The connections drawn between writing and DNA early on in the book shape a theme emergent in many of Powers’ books, that of analogues to writing itself.What makes the book truly interesting resides in Powers’s ability to be formally experimental while...