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...There's going to be information embedded in this ID," Ladd says. "It's going to have a picture on it. It's going to have a fingerprint...
...Charles Nichter, asked him to analyze the urine sample of an Amish child, Danny Lapp, from Lancaster County. At the time, Danny was alert but had no control over his arms or legs--signs of cerebral palsy, which was Nichter's medical specialty. Morton's testing revealed a metabolic fingerprint that could be caused only by glutaric aciduria, a disorder that had previously been reported only eight times worldwide--and not once in Lancaster County...
...race toward completing a map of the human genome, with its estimated 50,000 to 100,000 genes, they are discovering new genes, their role in specific diseases, and new diagnostic tests--all at a breathtaking pace. Within 30 years, researchers expect to be able to produce a genetic "fingerprint" of an individual's potential future health that will enable doctors to wage pre-emptive battle. Already, testing before any symptoms appear makes possible the early treatment of some breast and colon cancers. Further down the line is the prospect of gene therapy, in which modified genes are introduced into...
Sojourner also managed to obtain a "fingerprint" of the other chemicals in Barnacle Bill. The fingerprint turned out to be virtually identical to those of the 12 meteorites found on Earth that are believed to have Martian origins. "So," concluded University of Tennessee scientist Hap McSween after the visit to Barnacle Bill, "now we can say that we have analyzed 13 Martian rocks...
CLARKSBURG, West Virginia: FBI affidavits show the Mountaineer Militia planned to assassinate Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller. The militia, charged last October with conspiring to bomb the FBI's national fingerprint headquarters in West Virginia, said the hits would be carried out as part of a "holy war" against the federal government and therefore could not be considered as murder. The FBI documents also state that a militiaman associated with the West Virginia group suggested that members target the Rockefeller and Greenspan families as well. "You must chop off their heads," Larry Matz...