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Crichton is best known, of course, for Jurassic Park, his novel about a scientist who clones dinosaurs from their fossilized DNA, with disastrous results. It may be the most effective showcase for Crichton's gifts as a novelist, but even setting that aside, its predictive power remains astonishing to this day. Just this week, Japanese scientists announced that they had successfully cloned mice from tissue that was frozen for 16 years. Can the resurrection of the woolly mammoth be far off? Crichton probably wouldn't have approved, but it's a shame nonetheless that he didn't live...
...three defendants have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and in separate accounts have blamed the attack on robbers. They have also accused the police of mishandling evidence, including the victim's bra, which they say had the defendants' DNA on it because it had been left on the crime scene for days after the murder. But each defendant's legal team has insinuated in court that the fellow defendants may be responsible for the murder. Guede reportedly chose the fast-track procedure because he feared the other two defendants had a pact against...
...would be too much to ask those seeking the Presidency to embrace this reasoning. The leadership gene is too firmly lodged in the DNA of American politicians. But both McCain and Obama have stressed the need for a new and heartening approach to international relations. Even as he was calling for American leadership on everything from nuclear proliferation to global warming, Obama in Chicago spoke of the need for the U.S. to adopt "the spirit of a partner - a partner that is mindful of its own imperfections." And in his Los Angeles speech, McCain redefined leadership in a sophisticated...
...Sunday afternoon, Harvard Medical School’s chief information officer John D. Halamka reviewed information gleaned from a partial sequence of his DNA...
Currently, it costs roughly $350,000 for a personal genomics company to sequence a person’s DNA. Complete Genomics, a human genome sequencing company, hopes to provide this service next year for only...