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...Conn., is one of the innovative firms that have refined this art. Its proprietary technology--an adaptation of a decade-old technique--allows CuraGen's scientists to put human genes into yeast cells and effectively "fish" for proteins relevant to drug discovery. "We learned at the seat of the inventor of this technology," boasts technology group leader Bruce Taillon, "and showed him what would happen when CuraGen was set loose on it." The company stunned the biotech world in January, when it announced a 15-year, $1.4 billion deal with Bayer to develop drugs against obesity and diabetes. "CuraGen...
Signac and Georges Seurat were the leaders of a group awkwardly styled the neo-Impressionists. Seurat has always been seen as the inventor, Signac as the follower. This unfairly simple view should, with luck, be dispelled by the retrospective of some 120 oils, watercolors and drawings by Signac on view through Dec. 30 at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, its only venue...
...better perks?like "borrowing" MI6's hover Porsche MARK SHUTTLEWORTH South African mogul set to be second space tourist. He'll boldly go where no man with a net worth of less than $1 billion has gone before Losers DEAN KAMEN Inventor's top-secret scooter "Ginger" elicits yawns in its debut. He plans to add a V-8 engine and gigantic fins and market it as a "Cadillac" TALIBAN British racehorse with the bad name is snubbed by gamblers. The big beard slows it down, and it needs a Kalashnikov as a starting gun MARILYN MANSON Music's favorite...
...JOHN HEILEMANN is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the ups and downs of Silicon Valley for more than a decade. This week he wrote our exclusive and entertaining story revealing what Ginger actually is, after spending time riding on it and talking with its inventor. Chat with him about this groundbreaking invention--and decide whether it will change our lives--on Thursday...
Last Monday the inventor Dean Kamen finally unveiled his famous “Ginger” secret project. As many people correctly guessed last January, Ginger is a new electric scooter officially called Segway and notable primarily for its gyroscope-powered, automatic propulsion system. Step onto a Segway, think about going forward, and the gyroscopes under your feet sense a slight forward tilt in your posture and promptly whisk you onwards...