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...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...
...schedule U.S. scientists set for themselves. Though somewhat rudimentary, Cohen's charts will make it easier for researchers to track down and isolate single genes scattered along the length of human chromosomes. "We don't want to say that we have beaten the Americans," the 41-year-old geneticist protests. "We like to compete, but not on a nationalistic basis." And yet he notes, "On this map, 90% of the work will have been done in France...
...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...