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Hood is not alone in his quest for automation. That is also the goal of Columbia University biochemist Charles Cantor, recently appointed by the Energy Department to head one of its two genome centers. "It's largely an engineering project," Cantor explains, intended to produce tools for faster, less expensive sequencing and to develop data bases and computer programs to scan the data. Not to be outdone, Japan has set up a consortium of four high- tech companies to establish an automated assembly line, complete with robots, that researchers hope will be capable of sequencing 100,000 base pairs...
...that Eastern's unions had asked him to launch a bid for the airline. Icahn briefly considered such a bid last fall. He found the idea interesting, he said, but did not want to interfere in Eastern's collective-bargaining process. Lorenzo was cool to the suggestion. "Our major goal at the moment is coming to an agreement with our unions," he said. "I can't imagine how having someone like Icahn get involved will do anything but interfere with the process...
...April in Washington at the semiannual meeting of the IMF and World Bank. At a series of closed-door meetings, the world's leading moneymen will tackle the details of the U.S. proposal in earnest. They will probably have little trouble agreeing that debt relief is a worthy goal. After that, nothing will come easy...
Finding a cure for the common cold has been an elusive goal for generations. The reason: there are more than 100 different types of rhinoviruses, the culprits responsible for about half of all colds. Now scientists may have the key to warding off the sniffles. Reporting in the journal Cell last week, two separate research teams announced the discovery of a cell molecule to which rhinoviruses attach themselves. When the cold viruses bind to the molecule, known as the ICAM-1 receptor, they infect the cell...
...move too far in the direction of genetic uniformity. "The improvement and enhancement of genetics to some sort of optimum is not a function of medicine," observes the University of Minnesota's Caplan. "Very soon the medical fields are going to have to state clearly that their primary goal is the elimination and cure of disease and disability...