Word: geneticist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week's congressional hearing, called to weigh the impact of Venter's venture on the Genome Project, Washington University geneticist Maynard Olson predicted that the Venter map will have more than 100,000 "serious gaps"--regions where the fragments are improperly aligned. "Yes, you'll get a holey map," agrees Rockefeller University professor Norton Zinder, who was chair of the first Genome Project advisory committee. "But we will fill the holes." He anticipates substantial benefits from Venter's plan. "Craig," he says, "has jump-started the sequencing...
ROGER SHORT Geneticist wants mice to produce human sperm. Makes "Are you a man or a mouse?" a hard call...
...problem with this kind of logic, however, is its depressing reductionism. It recapitulates in all seriousness the geneticist's old witticism that a chicken is just an egg's way of making another...
Your article about the tests of a new decoy drug that relieves the common cold [MEDICINE, Oct. 13] was intriguing. If some future geneticist could produce a creature in his own likeness in the laboratory, wouldn't that scientist want to come up with a way to protect it against all the diseases of the earth? How could that be achieved...
...seminal theory--that humans come into the world fully programmed for grammatical language--permeates Pinker's thinking. In his work, for example, Pinker tries to tease apart how the innate components of the language system interact with experience. "The past tense," he quips, "is my version of the geneticist's fruit fly. A verb is small, it's easy to recombine, and it's a fast breeder...