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...Forward Spin: With gene chips and bioinformatics, it will be possible over the next five to 10 years for pathologists to analyze a malignant tumor and identify the exact cocktail of drugs needed to control its spread...
...attempt to find out the exact function of the channel, Clapham and his group tried to insert the gene into mammalian cells that grow in dishes. These efforts failed, implying that the CatSper protein requires other proteins or “subunits” to make it work...
Pitilessly astringent, formally exact, observant, pessimistic and skeptical of "progress," Naipaul can also be, at times, intolerably nasty: Who but Naipaul, when asked what the red dot on a Hindu woman's forehead signified, would answer, "It means My head is empty"? Naipaul doesn't suffer fools gladly, and to him the world is full of fools. Fuller, perhaps, than it really is. But he has been known to hit targets that few others would touch at the time: witness, for instance, his scarifying treatment of the ugly pretensions of English "black power" in the 1960s, in The Return...
...everyone worried about anthrax, a little perspective, please. There are some reasons to be nervous about the admittedly deadly germ - about seven of them, to be exact. That's how many people have contracted the disease. Conversely, there are "thousands and thousands" of reasons not to let anthrax anxiety take over our lives. That's the number of people who've been tested for anthrax, according to Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, who gave a press conference Thursday in hopes of calming public nerves. Take comfort in the numbers: Seven out of many thousands leaves the rest of us with...
...said he doesn’t have “an exact plan at this point,” adding that he is just “waiting to get more information...