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...bottom line is, Harvard's non-conference results leave the team with a smaller margin of error than the other teams at the top right...
...friendly and encouraging, and I realize that 15 minutes spent talking to someone with experience (one of the skiers who is there, Curt Schreiner, has been to the Olympics three times as a biathlete) is worth about six months of figuring things out on my own using trial and error. Brought together by a sport enjoyed by a very small number of people in the U.S., biathletes definitely stick together...
...medical revolution. Until now, doctors haven't actually been fighting illnesses like cancer, stroke and heart disease. Instead they've been intervening at the level of symptoms--the last, visible step in a complex cascade of biochemical events. And they have done it largely by trial and error--finding new medicines in exotic plant extracts, for example, or looking for chemical compounds that resemble existing drugs. The process is so woefully inefficient that the drugs currently available target only 500 or so different proteins in the body, out of the 30,000 or so we're made of. Says Collins...
...easy to design drugs that choose their targets this efficiently. In fact, it's so difficult that drug companies have hardly ever tried. They have relied instead on trial and error, testing hundreds of potential drugs in animals to find a few that actually cure without killing. But these molecular crapshoots are terribly wasteful, which is why drug designers are today turning to a fast-growing new area of computer science known as bioinformatics to fuel their endless quest for newer drugs and better targets...
...that's about to change. With the mapping of the genome--the twisted double strand of DNA that carries the instructions for making every cell in the human body--the process by which new drugs are developed is being turned upside down. Trial and error, which is how medicines have been discovered for the past 100 years (and for millenniums before that), is yielding to drugs by design. Increasingly scientists, armed with blueprints for our genes, can identify the individual molecules that make us susceptible to a particular disease. With that information--and some high-speed silicon-age machinery--they...