Word: geneticists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announcement that an international team of scientists, led by Dr. Daniel Cohen at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphism in Paris, has produced the first full-fledged -- if still rough -- map of the human genome. "This is a major step forward," says David Ward, a Yale geneticist who has been analyzing the map for errors. "It's a first pass, and it will have its warts. But it's still significant...
...course, offered by Medical School Associate Professor of Pathology Dr. Frederick R. Bieber, a medical geneticist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, explores the scientific principles behind controversial techniques such as DNA typing, also known as DNA fingerprinting, and drug screening, which are introduced into the courts as evidence every year...
Charles Epstein was sitting at the kitchen table when his daughter Joanna brought in the padded brown envelope with the day's mail. He saw nothing unusual about the package, but when Epstein, a geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, opened the package, it exploded. Rushed to the hospital, Epstein lost several fingers on his right hand, broke an arm and suffered severe abdominal injuries...
...geneticist at the University of California in San Francisco and a computer scientist at Yale were critically injured by mail bombs. Federal officials suspect a shadowy person or group, sometimes known as FC, which mailed explosive devices to campuses, airlines and high-tech companies in the late 1970s and '80s, killing one person and injuring...
...project, led by the National Institutes of Health, has mounted a campaign to patent each DNA fragment that its researchers can reproduce, even before its usefulness is determined. The policy has been heavily criticized within scientific circles and figured in the abrupt resignation last spring of Nobel-prizewinning geneticist James Watson as head of the Genome Project. Cohen speaks for many critics when he names the two big problems with the NIH approach: "The first is moral. You can't patent something that belongs to everyone. It's like trying to patent the stars. The second is economic. By patenting...