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Venter is using a faster but more risky method he calls "whole genome shotgunning." He clones a genome several times and then blasts the clones into 60 million bits, each between 2,000 and 10,000 letters long. Each fragment is then fed into a high-speed decoding robot. The next step, for Venter, is the most difficult. His robots e-mail their results to Celera's giant central database (said to represent more concentrated computing power than anywhere outside the Pentagon). These computers are using a sophisticated program to reassemble the genome fragments into the familiar 23 human chromosomes...
...same time learning about people who lived a long time ago and recreating stories about people from literally thousands of years ago. With tiny pieces of evidence, you can recreate the world--the feelings they had and their stories...you can facilitate that with one small fragment...
Other Apocryphal fragments like the Gospel of Peter, and even the widely publicized and still suspect fragment from the Secret Gospel of Mark, may also contain scraps of genuine memory, but lacking complete originals, we have only the shakiest grounds for assessing their reliability. The disappointing fact seems to be that most of the surviving New Testament Apocrypha arose in legitimate attempts to comprehend realities about which the canonical Gospels are mute, and any dogged attempt to read them is apt to leave the reader with one prime reaction--those 2nd and 3rd century Christian editors who decided...
...aaAT fragment was first discovered in human lung cancer cells by O'Reilly, a clinical fellow at the Children's Hospital...
...Medical School's Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery M. Judah Folkman announced last Friday that tests at his lab at the Children's Hospital had confirmed the effectiveness in mice of the protein fragment, called antiangiogenic antithrombin (aaAT), in suppressing the formation of blood vessels that feed tumor growth...