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...something tamer, Nobel physicist Arno Penzias believes that in the 21st century it will be possible to play Ping-Pong (or any other sport) with phantasms that look and talk like the celebrity of your choice. And that's just the beginning. Someday, says visionary engineer K. Eric Drexler, molecular-size machines will be able to assemble objects one atom at a time. Using this method, they could manufacture everything from prefabricated skyscrapers to computers small enough to fit inside a living cell...
Assembled by nature and honed by evolution, the convoluted 3-lb. organ positioned between our ears represents a triumph of bioengineering, one that continues to elude comprehension and defy imitation. "The brain," declares molecular biologist James Watson, co-discoverer of the physical structure of DNA, "is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe." The + quest to understand the biology of intelligence is likely to occupy the minds of the world's best scientists for centuries to come. The task may prove more challenging than those alive today suppose, requiring perhaps new breakthroughs in physics and chemistry...
...more than a philosophical debate. Under pressure from the powerful right-to-life lobby, the U.S. government quietly cut federal support for in vitro research in 1979 and later backed away from several related fields, including fetal-cell research. Although the U.S. is still a world leader in molecular genetics, a report by the congressional Office of Technology Assessment recently concluded that the country is now "less than well prepared" to put its scientific findings into clinical practice. "The U.S. government has withdrawn funding from this field," says Britain's Handyside, who is understandably proud of helping produce baby Chloe...
...grant is from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and will be used to fund the advanced placement biology course at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS), according to Judy Bromley, an academic administrator at the College's department of biochemistry and molecular biology...
...plans failed to materialize but Shattuck referred McLaurin to Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Stephen C. Harrison...