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Those whose taste for high tech has been whetted by the spyware can move on to the Marian Koshland Science Museum. The institution, part of the National Academy of Sciences, explains "the science behind the headlines" in layman's terms and focuses on cutting-edge research and how it impacts people's lives, says director Patrice Legro. There are exhibits on global warming, forensics and DNA replication, and even an interactive display called "Lights at Night" that allows visitors to navigate the globe using a joystick, along the way viewing data on energy use and population changes around the planet...
...what Lewontin and Hartl see as "an attempt to nullify" their analysis, Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., editor-in-chief of Science, wrote in a recent editorial: "Acceptance of the validity of DNA evidence is exactly what most scientists in this area have believed appropriate...
...Koshland says the judicial process has been "so slow to accept DNA evidence by failing to see that a couple of outspoken individuals were less representative of the scientific community than the vast majority of careful scholars...
...Koshland has come up with effective alternatives to even that problem. "It may soon be possible to put a DNA sample in an automated machine with both defense and prosecution acting as witnesses to the procedure," he writes in his Science editorial...
...There is an irony in this new acceptance of DNA fingerprinting," Koshland says in his editorial. "Ink fingerprinting went through the same type of debate, with questions about whether more than one person could have the same print, whether there could be abuse by police, whether there would be care in sample taking, and so on."Probe and Run an Autoradlograph The membrane is soaked in a solution containing microscopic radioactive probes, which bind to speclife parts of the DNA molecule. The strands are then exposed on X-ray him. When the firm is developed, the strand with the probe...