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...quantum physics. Stepping boldly outside his field of expertise, Schrodinger argued that one of life's essential features is the storage and transmission of information--that is, a genetic code that passes from parent to child. And because it had to be both complex and compact enough to fit inside a single cell, this code had to be written at the molecular level...
...there remained the problem of how to fit the bases together. Watson kept trying to do it by pairing like with like--an A attached to one backbone linked to an A on the other. Chemically, it would work. The bases were different enough in size and shape, though, that this scheme led to either a gap between bases or misshapen backbones. Worse yet, when Watson happened to show his idea to Jerry Donohue, an American crystallographer doing a stint at the Cavendish, Donohue informed him that the bases came in more than one chemical form. Watson was using...
...think we will also see more personalized medicine--knowing your own genome and being able to choose what part you want to look at and what part you don't. I can't imagine we will be in a complete Utopia. Utopia doesn't fit our personality...
...mentor and promoter, with an eye toward a future payday. "He was really patient with me," says 50, who was questioned by police following Jay's murder but is not a suspect. "I would come in with rhymes, almost free verse, and he explained that they had to fit 16 bars of music. Once he said...
...California. After expenses, the business brings in from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, according to Kafka. "We wanted to supplement our income. Retirement money doesn't earn that much in the stock market today," she says. "This is a great, fulfilling way to keep busy, productive and fit...