Word: fractionals
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...National Institute of General Medical Sciences will spend $20 million this fall to establish a series of research centers dedicated to a branch of proteomics known as structural genomics. The centers will detail, over the next 10 years, the shapes of 10,000 proteins. That's a tiny fraction of all the proteins found in nature, but the NIGMS thinks that number will cover most of the structures relevant to biology and medicine...
...sports car-owning multimillionaire who threw Gatsby-like parties (last year's income: $560,000, not counting options on Celera stock that were worth, at last week's closing price of $125.25, nearly $351 million). And by declaring his intention to sequence the entire human genome in only a fraction of the time (three years) and at a much lower cost ($200 million) than government-sponsored scientists had originally said it would take (15 years and $3 billion), he made his colleagues look like fools. (At the photo session last Thursday for TIME's cover, Venter needled Collins about...
...This option was created by HMOS to let members see doctors outside the network, but freedom predictably comes with a higher price. An HMO with broad networks like CIGNA's, though, only has a small fraction of POS members actually seeking care outside the network...
According to Taylor defending the University against lawsuits is only a "teeny-weeny" fraction of the OGC's mission which "is to provide legal advice to the University." So the office spends most of its time solving non-litigation problems as requested by the various Harvard schools...
...slightly unnerving - especially if you're an actor like me who likes a lot of gush bullshit. Lots of, "You were wonderful, sweetheart. That's the best thing I've ever seen," and then they'll add, "However, I wonder if we could just tweak it a fraction in this take." But it's not like that with Woody...