Word: labs
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...everybody shares Burton's enthusiasm. Some critics are worried that private companies will use the science council as a virtual R. and D. lab, allowing them to reap the benefits of millions of dollars of federal science money without having to contribute a dime. Others fear that the science bureaucracy will get bigger, not smaller, making it a tempting tool for pork- minded politicians. Paul Romer, an economist from the University of California, Berkeley, questions how effective the NSTC will be at dismantling wasteful or irrelevant programs. "It will make virtually no difference," he predicts. "That spending is there because...
...still at the NIH, he and venture capitalist Wallace Steinberg established Genetic Therapy Inc., a biotech company in Gaithersburg, Maryland, dedicated to producing retroviral vectors. Under an arrangement with the NIH, the first of its kind, GTI would have the initial rights to technology developed in Anderson's lab in return for the NIH's receiving payments and royalties from sales of GTI products...
...lyrics of his own invention to the tune of one of Frank Sinatra's enduring hits. "So start today," Collins crooned into a microphone. "Love DNA, and do it ouuuuurrr way." The star of this spoof stood 6 ft. 4 in. tall. He wore cowboy boots beneath his white lab coat and slung a stethoscope round his neck like a wayward tie. And as his last note faded, the delighted audience gave him a standing ovation...
...genes. Finding a gene embedded in long, nearly featureless spirals of DNA, he likes to observe, is harder than locating the proverbial needle in a haystack. "At least a needle looks different from a haystack," he says, "but a gene is just another piece of DNA." His love for lab work won't let Collins become merely a bureaucrat. He has already established his own research center at the National Institutes of Health so he and colleagues can continue their search for errant genes...
Tabin suggested using the names of different species of hedgehogs. His lab had called the previous three genes isolated from this family Indian hedgehog, moonrat hedgehog and desert hedgehog, for the gene's ability, when mutated, to give fruit flies the bristly appearance of a hedgehog...