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...individual samples of genetic material sit in tiny wells etched into plastic plates, each one identified by a unique bar code. One by one, Zeus searches for a particular code, dips into the corresponding well with a fine, quill-like probe and picks up a minuscule droplet of liquid DNA...
...these proteins vary from one person to the next, members of the Pharmacogenetics of Membrane Transporters project are focusing on 25 different transporters already known to play a role in drug absorption and elimination. The first step is to look at the genes for those transporters in DNA samples from 250 ethnically diverse people and see how they vary from one individual to the next. "Identifying the variants is rather easy," says Kathleen Giacomini, the project's principal investigator and UCSF's chairwoman of biopharmaceutical sciences. "The really hard part is in looking at whether the variants have significance...
...have that option now because nobody saved the cells" while lab work was being conducted on the rodent in the 1970s. "The future will want to know about these species, and the lingua franca of biology is increasingly going to be genomic information. If nobody saves the DNA of these samples, it's going to be a very fragmented picture." There is also a present-day, practical side. By providing vital clues to the mingling of subspecies and the types of environment they require, genetic data can help zoologists care for endangered animals in captivity...
During week two I picked up the "swizzle." This is a forward vector in which the legs are repeatedly bowed in and out, apart and together, as if drawing a chain of DNA. This too I more or less mastered, while achieving some success at its inversion, the backward swizzle. I went home elated and then was tickled to find an ice-skating movie on cable called The Cutting Edge. In the movie, the Russian coach counsels his ice dancers, "Douglas, you are stem. Katia, you are petal. Together, you make flower." I was starting to feel a little floral...
...well as Gessert's daughter. Chmura reportedly impressed the kids by phoning his teammates, including Winters, leaving funny messages on their answering machines. Chmura also knew at least one person among the partyers: the alleged victim had baby-sat at his home. His attorney points out that no DNA evidence has been discovered implicating Chmura and that a clinic exam showed that the accuser's hymen was intact. But that exam, according to court papers, also indicated evidence "consistent with some object being forcibly inserted" in her genital area...