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...with the advances of genomics in recent years, scientists have a new lens through which to single out mutations of individual proteins in a DNA strand...
...because he's absolutely single minded, almost manic, in his pursuit of quality and excellence." Indeed, Jobs' most potent weapon is still his messianic zeal to fulfill his original vision of Apple as the bridge between the average citizen and the mysterious world of the computer. "His DNA was built into this company," says Heidi Roizen, a partner at the Softbank venture-capital firm who has known Jobs since the beginning. "And when he came back, everything fell into place--a return to excellence in design, to listening to the consumer, to developing cool products...
What you failed to mention about Barry Scheck [NATION, Sept. 13] is that this is the same Barry Scheck who convincingly argued in the O.J. Simpson trial that DNA samples can be contaminated and made useless (or at least open to "reasonable doubt") as scientific evidence in a criminal trial. Through his own arguments, we are left with two possible conclusions: either Scheck is freeing potentially guilty people through the Innocence Project, or he successfully defended a double murderer he knew to be guilty. I don't know whether to laud this man or deplore him. JEFFREY M. LLEWELLYN Denver...
After reading that DNA testing is freeing people who were wrongly convicted, I wonder whether anyone worries about defendants who were wrongly convicted using DNA testing. From 1989 to 1993, here in Oklahoma, DNA evidence was the only murder-trial evidence implicating a Native American defendant from my family. The initial defense included reports of flagrant mishandling of DNA evidence, but this was ignored. Only after three trials and with a court-appointed defense DNA expert was my family member acquitted. RUSSELL L. BATES Anadarko, Okla...
...Percentage of our DNA that's been decoded by the nine-year-old Human Genome Project...